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Opponents to single-use plastic bag bans argue that multi-use bags are not environmentally friendly either. In A UK Environment Agency report on life-cycle assessment of grocery bags, the authors find that with typical consumer behavior, the pollution-minimizing solution is to obtain single-use plastic grocery bags and reuse once for secondary ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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. [296] City of Providence: May 1, 2019 October 22, 2019 Single-use plastic bag ban. [297 ...
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 ...