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  2. Plastic bans - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Plastic bag ban - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. New Mexico communities want a ban on single-use plastic ... - AOL

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    Worries over discarded single-use trash bags across New Mexico has the state eyeing a potential ban. Some communities are already acting on their own.

  5. Plastic bag bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Single-use plastic bag ban. [308] County of Charleston: March 2019 January 1, 2020 Single-use plastic bag ban. [309] Town of Edisto Beach: April 11, 2019 January 1, 2020 Single-use plastic bag ban. [310] Town of Hilton Head Island: January 10, 2018 November 1, 2018 Single-use plastic bag ban. [311] City of Isle of Palms: March 2019 January 1, 2020

  6. A ban on single-use plastics takes effect in Hong Kong in a ...

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    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 ...

  7. Single-use plastics now fully banned in Bellingham. These are ...

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  8. Plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    In 2019, the state New York banned single use plastic bags and introduced a 5-cent fee for using single use paper bags. The ban will enter into force in 2020. The ban will enter into force in 2020. This will not only reduce plastic bag usage in New York state (23 billion every year until now), but also eliminate 12 million barrels of oil used ...

  9. California bans all plastic shopping bags at store checkouts ...

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    On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will ban plastic bags in California stores. But will it work? California bans all plastic shopping bags at store checkouts: When will it go into effect?