| 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-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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