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Angers -
Dutch sculptor Florentijn Hofman does not do things by halves, so there was a sense of anticipation when it was revealed that Hofman would be constructing a sculpture in the city of Angers located in Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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Toronto -
Many were not expecting this, yes they wanted to stop the five cent charge for plastic bags, but not ban them forever. But the city decided otherwise, and maybe they didn't know what impact it would have on the public.
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Toronto -
One day after Toronto's city council voted in favour of not only ending the three-year-old five-cent bag fee, it also approved a motion to ban plastic bags by 2013. Mayor Rob Ford took to the airwaves to call it the "dumbest thing council has done."
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Los Angeles -
Environmentalists won a major victory on Wednesday when the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines over the next 16 months.
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Honolulu -
The option to choose paper or plastic is officially coming to an end in sunny Hawaii, the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags.
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Currently several cities in the US are examining the possibility of implementing a plastic bag ban. Disposable plastic bags have been an issue that has been under increased scrutiny because of the environmental impact of consumers not reusing the bags.
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With the looming US debt crisis, famine in East Africa, and mass murder in Norway, why should we be concerned about plastic bags?
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Toronto -
After successfully following through on three of his many campaign promises, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is looking at eliminating the 5-cent plastic bag tax that retailers are mandated to charge.
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Beijing -
In a river in eastern China, fishermen stumbled upon 21 babies inside plastic bags. Local authorities suspect that a nearby hospital dumped the babies as trash.
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On Wednesday, hundreds of stores in Mexico City have become green after a new law that will order businesses to stop selling thin plastic bags that are not biodegradable.
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