• A plastic bag ban or charge is a law that restricts the use of lightweight plastic bags at retail establishments. In the early 21st century, there has...
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    There is no national plastic bag fee or ban currently in effect in the United States. However, the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware...
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  • Plastic bag bans in Australia were implemented in the early 21st century by the country’s states and territories, rather than through federal law. The...
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    A plastic bag, poly bag, or pouch is a type of container made of thin, flexible, plastic film, nonwoven fabric, or plastic textile. Plastic bags are used...
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    Plastic shopping bags, carrier bags, or plastic grocery bags are a type of plastic bag used as shopping bags and made from various kinds of plastic. In...
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  • 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...
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  • Area county of Santa Clara also passed a plastic bag ban in unincorporated areas of the county, but this ban excludes restaurants and non-profit organizations...
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    municipalities had some kind of plastic bag ban. Three state bans and two city bans alone reduced the amount of plastic bags used in one year approximately...
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    bag, sometimes called a bag for life in the UK, is a type of shopping bag which can be reused many times, in contrast to single-use paper or plastic shopping...
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    ask for a plastic bag". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2011. Elliott, Valerie (28 April 2007). "Modbury (pop 1,553) is first to ban plastic bags". The...
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  • industry. Founded in 2005, it lobbies against U.S. local and state plastic bag bans and taxes. The ARPBA is connected to the Society of the Plastics Industry...
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    the aim to cut plastic bag use in half by 2019 France implemented banned single-use plastic bags on July 1, 2016, and banned plastic dinnerware as well...
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  • Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. City of Manhattan Beach is a California Supreme Court case, decided by a full majority on July 14, 2011, in which the...
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  • A suicide bag, also known as an exit bag or hood, is part of a euthanasia device consisting of a large plastic bag with a drawcord used to die by suicide...
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    city protect wetlands, support adaption to climate change, enact a plastic bag ban, adopt Community Choice Aggregation, and provide paid parental leave...
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  • 2020). "Ailing plastic businesses seek rescue". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 7 February 2020. "Thailand kicks off 2020 with plastic bag ban". Channel News...
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    2018. The plastic bag ban means that no businesses in New Zealand can sell, distribute or in any way provide customers with single-use plastic shopping...
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  • ABC News. Retrieved 2019-05-22. "Lightweight Plastic Shopping Bag Ban WA Western Australia". WA Bag Ban. 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2024-01-16. "New laws and...
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    Kong plastic shopping bag environmental levy scheme is an environmental levy scheme designed to reduce the manufacture and distribution of plastic shopping...
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    have banned the use of plastic bags. Paper bags emerge as a great replacement for plastic bags; however, paper bags tend to be more expensive. A bag may...
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  • January 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018. "Plastic bag ban takes first step". Retrieved 13 August 2018. "The Bahamas to Ban Single-Use Plastics By 2020 | Caribbean360"...
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    Services. Sauls voted for H56, a bill that repealed the Outer Banks plastic bag ban and was called the “junk drawer of environmental laws.” Republican...
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    "Mayor Marty Walsh Signs Boston's Plastic Bag Ban Into Law". Retrieved 6 September 2021. "Mayor Walsh Signs Ban On Plastic Bags For Boston". BostonGlobe.com...
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    sustainable alternative to traditional plastic bags by scientist Mubarak Ahmad Khan. The primary ingredient in the Sonali Bag is cellulose, derived from jute...
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    which banned municipalities within Arizona to require businesses to report energy usage or regulate auxiliary containers known as the plastic bag ban preemption...
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    plastic bag bans throughout the entire region. It includes strong support for strengthening the San Francisco plastic bag ban in 2011, which banned all...
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    commonly made of filter paper or food-grade plastic, or occasionally of silk cotton or silk. The tea bag performs the same function as a tea infuser....
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    city protect wetlands, support adaption to climate change, enact a plastic bag ban, adopt Community Choice Aggregation, and provide paid parental leave...
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    movement towards the phase-out of polystyrene foam as a single use plastic (SUP). Early bans of polystyrene foam intended to eliminate ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons...
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    County Council overrides Olszewski's veto, exempts liquor stores from plastic bag ban". Baltimore Banner. Retrieved November 6, 2023. Ingram, Susan (June...
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