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Keep Plastic Bags out of Landfills by Sitting on Them:
Plastic grocery bags seem to multiply like Tribbles.
You use them to store things; you use them as garbage bags.
Click on the link to see what unique product Kitsch, a retailer in
the UK, is offering....
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Top 10 Myths
about Plastic Grocery Bags: Paper grocery bags are a better
environmental choice than plastic bags. Read more about this myth
and others,...
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In a Landfill, How Long Does Trash Really Last?: by
Brie Cadman of California. We’ve all been there—at the
beach, empty beer bottle in hand, a trash can, but no recycling bin
in sight. So we dump the bottle in the normal trash, perhaps feeling
guilty we weren’t able to recycle it,...
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Campaign Against the Plastic Plague Background Info: from Earth
Resource Foundation. Plastic bags are everywhere! Everyday, we are
handed countless plastic bags: when we go to the grocery store, retail
clothing store, book store, restaurants, etc. Yes, sometimes, plastic bags are
convenient, as they are water resistant and light and inexpensive compared to
paper bags. Most of the time, plastic bags are superfluous and avoidable....
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Plastic Left Holding the Bag as Environmental Plague:
by Joan Lowy. Imagine a world without plastic shopping
bags. It could be the future. There is a growing international
movement to ban or discourage the use of plastic bags because of
their environmental effects. Countries from Ireland to Australia are
cracking down on the bags and action is beginning to stir in the
United States....
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Plastic or Paper: from the Washington Post. A useful comparison chart
of paper versus plastic bags....
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Banish the Bags: Used for minutes but last 1,000 years... The
life cycle of plastic bags: from
Associated Newspapers Limited in
London. They are handed out in their billions, used for
a few minutes then discarded to pollute the earth for hundreds of
years. Here we trace the life cycle of a plastic bag ....Read
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Are Plastic Grocery Bags Sacking the Environment?: by John Roach for
National Geographic News. The "paper or plastic" conundrum that vexed
earnest shoppers throughout the 1980s and 90s is largely moot today. Most
grocery store baggers don't bother to ask anymore. They drop the bananas in
one plastic bag as they reach for another to hold the six-pack of soda. The
pasta sauce and noodles will get one too, as will the dish soap....Read
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San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban Interests Other Cities: from
NPR by by David Gorn. Cities
around the world are moving to ban plastic shopping bags to protect
the environment. A roundup: ...Read
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Plastic bags: Ban them or tax them?: Los Angeles Times.
Tired of seeing plastic bags littering our streets?
Don't like millions of your tax dollars spent on landfilling
discarded plastic bags, cleaning up dirty oceans, and de-clogging
drains? Then show up at a Jan. 22 hearing of
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing on whether to
require a reduction in one-use plastic bags....Read
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Plastic-Bag Bans Gaining Momentum Around the World: by John
Roach for National
 Geographic
News, April 4, 2008. From Australia to
the U.K., and all across the U.S., politicians and corporations are
pondering banning or taxing plastic bags. A hefty surcharge that
began in 2003 in Ireland has spurred the public there to spurn
plastic bags almost completely in favor of reusable cloth totes.
Plastic sacks are also taxed in Italy and Belgium.
Grocery shoppers must pay for the bags in Switzerland, Germany, and
Holland. Spain, Norway, and now the
U.K. are considering a ban or tax as well.
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City thinking of plastic bag ban: from The Badger Herald by
Cara Harshman on Monday,
January 28, 2008. Madison could be the next city to adopt a worldwide
trend of banning plastic grocery bags.
The city’s Commission on the Environment discussed ideas to decrease plastic
bag and plastic water bottle use at a meeting Monday evening....Read
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County plans plastic bag ban: from the Des Moines
Register By VANNAH SHAW. Marshall County officials say they
intend to pass a first-in-Iowa ordinance that mandates the use of
only biodegradable bags for customer purchases in retail stores.
Merchants who violate the ordinance would faces fines of up to $500
for repeat offenses. ...Read
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London Joins Plastic Bag Ban: from The Independent by Martin
Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent. This latest move will
have major repercussions for the packaging and retail industries.
The plus points are the environment and less reliance on expensive
petrochemicals. ...Read
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Pressure Builds to Ban Plastic Bags in Stores: from the
New York Times by Ian Urbina. ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 23 — Paper or plastic? It is a
question that has long dogged grocery shoppers. But the debate may
soon be settled for this maritime city, where a bill aimed at
protecting marine life would ban plastic bags from all retail
stores.
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Whole Foods to ban plastic bags company-wide: from The
Houston Business Journal. After meeting with Austin city
officials for several months about strategies to voluntarily reduce
and recycle plastic bag use,
Whole Foods Market Inc. has abruptly decided to
eliminate the use of plastic bags in its Austin stores. Whole
Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) on Wednesday announced it will immediately stop
offering plastic bags at checkouts in two Austin stores and that it
intends to ban plastic bags company-wide by early 2008. ...Read
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