2nd Largest City in U.S. Los Angeles, California, June 18, 2013 (PBBR) – Today the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance banning certain retailers from giving plastic bags to a customer. The City Council actually banned plastic bags last year. It has taken a year to get the Final EIR completed, submitted and approved. [...]
Great Barrington, MA, May 31, 2013 (PBBR) – A historic town in western Massachusetts has elected to not wait on the State Legislature to decide on plastic bag regulation. The town of Great Barrington, at its annual Town Meeting on May 6, 2013, adopted the Plastic Bag Reduction By-law. The purpose of the Plastic Bag [...]
Sets Fee on Paper Bags Shoreline, WA, May 9, 2013 – The City Council of Shoreline, Washington has banned all retailers from providing plastic bags to customers. In addition, the Council set a five-cents fee per bag to be charged by retailers if a customer requires a paper bag. The City Council adopted the carryout [...]
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, April 4, 2013 – Manchester, Massachusetts, a small town 20 miles north of Boston, has passed a by-law banning the distribution of plastic bags by local merchants. Local resident Gary Gilbert presented the plastic bag reduction proposal to the Board of Selectmen at the January 7, 2013 Town Hall meeting. Mr. Gilbert proposed [...]
Redwood City, CA, March 26, 2013 – The City Council of Redwood City, California, the county seat of San Mateo county, at its meeting of March 25, 2013, unanimously approved a reusable bag ordinance. The ordinance prohibits the distribution of single-use carryout plastic bags within the City. This follows the adoption of a reusable bag [...]
Encourages Reusable Bags Larchmont, NY, March 22, 2013 (PBBR) – On March 19, 2013, the Village of Larchmont, NY joined two other Westchester County towns to regulate single-use plastic bags. The Board of Trustees of the Village of Larchmont passed Local Law 1-2013, a local law to encourage the use of reusable checkout bags and [...]
Sunset Valley, Texas – On February 19, 2013, the small town of Sunset Valley, Texas passed a plastic bag ban. With the town being completely surrounded by the City of Austin, the City Council based the ordinance on Austin’s Carryout Bag Ordinance. After Austin’s plastic bag ordinance was adopted and became law in 2012, the [...]
Press Release from Pakistan EPA: Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA), with the approval of the Ministry of Climate Change and after obtaining consent of the Law and Justice Division, notified a Regulation prohibiting manufacture, import, sale and use of non-degradable plastic bags and other plastic products in the limits of Islamabad Capital Territory, effective from [...]
Includes Restaurants In 2009, the City of Palo Alto, California adopted a plastic bag ordinance which regulated plastic bags only at large retailers. On March 11, 2013, the city expanded that plastic bag ordinance to include all retailers, including restaurants. The new extension of the ordinance will regulate the sale of paper bags also. The [...]
March 12, 2013, Plastic Bag Ban Report – The month of April should be named “Environment Month”. Along with Earth Day on April 22nd, 16 plastic bag bans take effect this month in the U.S. and one in Northern Ireland and Pakistan. Northern Ireland will levy a five pence charge on carrier bags beginning April [...]
Becoming eco-friendly is possible, even if this concept is new to you . .
I do not mind the plastic bag ban at all..... I say everyone stop whining . . .
It was great to read about a younger generation drawing attention to environmental issues.
Just to follow up on what Andy said, in the UK some supermarkets now charge for plastic bags
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