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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 ...
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.
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]
Le, author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered, advocates for tossing: “Since [plastic bags] are disposable, it would be best to just throw them away when they become dirty or contaminated ...
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 ...
California Democrats passed a more sweeping plastic bag ban on all types of plastic grocery bags after reports showed their first ban led to more plastic waste.
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 ...
Shoppers at Aldi will no longer be able to purchase plastic shopping bags to tote home their groceries. The discount chain has done away with the containers at all 2,300 of its U.S. locations, a ...