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Single-use plastic bag ban. [311] Town of Port Royal: February 14, 2018 November 1, 2019 Single-use plastic bag ban. [312] Town of Seabrook Island: July 23, 2019 January 1, 2020 Single-use plastic bag ban. [313] Town of Surfside Beach: January 23, 2018 June 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban. [314] Texas 2: City of Austin: March 2012: March 2013
Georgia — South Fulton banned single-use plastics in 2019. [109] Atlanta banned polystyrene at city-owned buildings, including Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. [110] Illinois — Oak Park [111] and River Forest [112] have enacted bans. In 2023, the state legislature passed a ban affecting state agencies and universities. [113]
As of May 2024, 12 states in the United States (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington) have banned single-use plastic bags. [6] In Nigeria, reports shows that over 60 million plastic sachets are used and disposed daily, [1] and only about 12% is recycled ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday it will phase out single-use plastic products on public lands by 2032, including in national parks, in a move aimed at tackling ...
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Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. Reusable bags must be at least 2.25 mils. [363] British Columbia: Victoria: 17 December 2017: 1 July 2018: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [364] Manitoba: Leaf Rapids: 22 March 2007: 2 April 2007: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [365] Thompson: 27 September 2010: 31 December 2010: Single-use ...
Notes: York is again leading the way in proposing a ban on single-use plastics, according to local historian James Kences. He points out that only nine years ago, in 2015, York banned the use of ...
A 2022 global survey finds that 75% of people want single-use plastics banned, the research concluded that: "the percentage of people calling for bans is up from 71% since 2019, while those who said they favoured products with less plastic packaging rose to 82% from 75%, according to the IPSOS poll of more than 20,000 people across 28 countries."