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“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Sunday that will prevent grocery stores from providing plastic bags to customers beginning in 2026. The legislation comes 10 years after the state ...
California lawmakers in both houses this week voted to approve a pair of bills that would ban grocery stores and other retailers from handing out multi-use plastic bags to customers. California ...
Plastic bag ban for large retailers; 10 cent charge for paper bags. A higher fee may be adopted by the municipality or county in which the store is located. [2] City of Aspen: October 2011: May 2012: Plastic bag ban for large retailers; 20 cent charge for paper bags. [34] Town of Avon: May 1, 2018: Plastic bag ban; 10 cent tax on paper bags ...
These requirements apply only in areas that did not already have single-use carryout bag laws at the time. At the same time, another proposition regarding plastic grocery bags was on the ballot. Proposition 65 was an initiative to use proceeds from plastic bag sales in grocery stores to fund environmental projects in California. [21]
A total plastic bag ban on ultra thin plastic bags and a fee on plastic bags was introduced in China on 1 June 2008. This came into effect because of the problems with sewerage and general waste. One 2009 survey suggests that plastic bag use fell between 60 and 80% in Chinese supermarkets, and 40 billion fewer bags were used.
Since the thinner plastic bags were prohibited, the thicker plastic bag distribution has resulted in a 46% increase in plastic bag waste discarded in California, according to a report by CALPIRG.
Plastic bans are laws that prohibit the use of polymers manufactured from petroleum or other fossil fuels, given the pollution and threat to biodiversity that they cause.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 ...