Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The state Senate in Massachusetts has passed a wide-ranging bill curtailing the use of plastics, including barring the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. The bill, approved ...
Plastic bag and straw ban. [281] West Goshen Township: December 21, 2021 April 22, 2022 Plastic bag and straw ban. [282] West Norriton Township: November 8, 2022 April 22, 2023 Plastic bag ban. [283] West Vincent Township: July 15, 2024 October 13, 2024 Single-use plastic bag ban, $0.10 fee for paper bags [284] Whitemarsh Township: July 13 ...
The Act to Reduce Plastic Waste, filed by Sen. Becca Rausch, D-Needham, would expand the ban on single-use plastic bags throughout the state. It also addresses plastic straws and other food ...
The state plastic-ban bill would supersede local bans. According to the Sierra Club of Massachusetts, as of May, 2023, 162 Massachusetts cities and towns, representing almost 5 million people or ...
A drinking straw ban has been proposed in New York City since May 2018. [114] Businesses are fined if a straw is provided (unless requested) and also fined if no plastic straws are available and also fined for other reasons regarding straws. [115] [116]
Plastic bag ban including bags used for newspapers and flyers [378] Montreal: 23 August 2016: 1 January 2018: Ban of plastic bags including biodegradable. Reusable bags must be at least 50 microns thickness. [379] Saskatchewan: Regina: 31 May 2020 1 February 2022 Single-use plastic shopping bag ban effective following COVID-19 pandemic. [380 ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...
China has a phased-in program of plastic bans from 2020 to 2025 on products from bags, to straws, to cutlery, to certain packaging, to items in hotels. [ 5 ] As of May 2024 [update] , 12 states in the United States (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington ...