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Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...
A growing number of countries have instituted plastic bag bans, and a ban on single-use plastic (such as throw-away forks or plates), and are looking to spread bans to all plastic packaging, plastic clothing (such as polyester and acrylic fiber, or any other form of unnecessary plastic that could be replaced with an easily biodegradeable, non ...
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 ...
Hong Kong has long been a major producer and consumer of great food, and a great amount of plastic and Styrofoam to go with it. The regulation of disposable plastic tableware and other plastic ...
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 ...
Single-use plastic bag ban. [292] Town of Narragansett: February 8, 2022 January 1, 2023 Single-use plastic bag ban. [293] City of Newport: November 1, 2017 Single-use plastic bag ban. [294] Town of New Shoreham: January 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban. [295] Town of Portsmouth: March 12, 2019 September 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban ...
Under the previous ban, SB 270, enacted July 1, 2015, grocery stores, retail stores with a pharmacy, convenience stores, food marts and liquor stores could use only reusable plastic bags made with ...
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."