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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 ...
On 14 April 2021, the US Senate voted 92–6 to advance the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19, with a section of the bill (titled the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act, originally drafted by Senator Richard Blumenthal) dedicated to providing federal grants for ...
Single-use plastic bag ban. [294] City of Newport: November 1, 2017 Single-use plastic bag ban. [295] Town of New Shoreham: January 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban. [296] Town of Portsmouth: March 12, 2019 September 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban. [297] City of Providence: May 1, 2019 October 22, 2019 Single-use plastic bag ban. [298 ...
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 ...
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Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. Reusable bags must be at least 2.25 mils. [364] British Columbia: Victoria: 17 December 2017: 1 July 2018: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [365] Manitoba: Leaf Rapids: 22 March 2007: 2 April 2007: Single-use plastic shopping bag ban. [366] Thompson: 27 September 2010: 31 December 2010: Single-use ...
The regulation of disposable plastic tableware and other plastic products in Hong Kong aims to reduce their use at the source to cut down on pollution, Hong Kong’s Environmental Protection ...