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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The county becomes the largest government entity to restrict single-use plastic food ware items from restaurants and other commercial operations. L.A. County restricts single-use plastics for ...
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 ...
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 ...
In January 2020, Waguespack proposed legislation that would have placed limits on single-use plastics and foam food containers by giving give restaurants and take-out establishments until January 1, 2021, to stop selling or serving food in polystyrene containers and limit use of plastic utensils and straws. [10] [13]