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The new initiative seeks to eliminate single-use plastics in packaging by 2027, and in all food service operations by 2035.
"We don't need single-use plastics," Zee said. "We survived the 1970s or 1950s without it. So stop buying it and demand that the companies use something else."
A single hospital patient generates nearly 34 pounds of waste a day—as much as a quarter of it is plastic. The COVID-19 pandemic only worsened the problem. LookerStudio // Shutterstock
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]
Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [372] Nunavut: Baker Lake: 3 June 2021: 3 June 2021: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [373] Prince Edward Island: Province-wide July 2019: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [374] Quebec: Brossard: 16 February 2016: 1 September 2016: Single-use plastic bag ban (including compostable) [375] [376] Deux ...
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 bags banned. [211] Borough of Glen Rock: April 10, 2019: January 1, 2020: Single-use plastic bags banned. Minimum of $.10 fee for reusable and recyclable paper bags. [212] Jersey City: June 27, 2018 June 28, 2019 Single-use plastic and non-recyclable paper bags banned. [213] Borough of Longport: November 20, 2015: 2015
Now, reusable plastic pudding pots are used at lunchtime at not just their school, but four others in the Nova Education Trust. When the feedback was passed to the school's catering company, it ...