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  2. Biden administration seeks to eliminate single-use plastics ...

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    The announcement follows a 2022 U.S. Department of Interior Secretarial Order aimed at phasing out single-use plastics in national parks and other public lands — including Yosemite, Yellowstone ...

  3. Plastic bag bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Single-use plastic bags banned. [211] Borough of Glen Rock: April 10, 2019: January 1, 2020: Single-use plastic bags banned. Minimum of $.10 fee for reusable and recyclable paper bags. [212] Jersey City: June 27, 2018 June 28, 2019 Single-use plastic and non-recyclable paper bags banned. [213] Borough of Longport: November 20, 2015: 2015

  4. Plastic bans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Plastic bag ban - Wikipedia

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    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 polyethylene bag ban. Reusable bags must be 2.25 mils thick. [366] New Brunswick: Dieppe: 10 June 2019: 1 October 2020: Single-use plastic shopping ...

  6. The Dirty Secret of Alternative Plastics - AOL

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    Polyethylene terephthalate, the PET plastic used for most soda bottles (and also in many other single-use packaging products), is usually extracted from fossil fuels, but, in a process similar to ...

  7. Single-use plastics revolutionized the medical industry. Now ...

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    A single hospital patient generates nearly 34 pounds of waste a day—as much as a quarter of it is plastic. The COVID-19 pandemic only worsened the problem. LookerStudio // Shutterstock

  8. Plastic pollution - Wikipedia

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    In April 2019, the EU adopted a further directive banning almost all types of single use plastic, except bottles, from the beginning of the year 2021. [229] [230] On 3 July 2021, the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD, EU 2019/904) went into effect within EU member states. The directive aims to reduce plastic pollution from single-use ...

  9. A NY push to cut down on single-use plastics just fizzled out ...

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    The bill targets companies that produce at least two million tons of plastic packing and single-use plastics annually. The final draft included a major concession. Businesses would have to reduce ...

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