BRATTLEBORO, Vermont, December 19, 2012 (ENS) – Bright solid-colored plastic bags may contain high concentrations of lead in violation of state laws, new tests conducted by the nonprofit Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse have shown. Based in Brattleboro and administered by the Northeast Recycling Council, the Clearinghouse helps coordinate the implementation of states’ toxics in packaging [...]
Aug. 28, 2012 (PBBR) – The National Center for Policy Analysis, based in Dallas, TX and Washington, DC., is a public policy research organization that develops and promotes private alternatives to government regulation and control. On July 24, 2012, National Center for Policy Analysis posted a video of Senior Fellow Sterling Burnett discussing the unintended [...]
The True Job Loss Factor The City of Los Angeles, California passed an ordinance banning plastic bags on May 23rd, 2012. Opponents decried the ban as a job killer. As the bill’s sponsor, Paul Koretz, states, no one wants to be responsible for killing jobs. However, smart businesses will “re-purpose” jobs to minimize job loss. [...]
7,000 Volunteers Clean Up Hong Kong, Aug. 21, 2012 – PlasticBagBanReport.com – “People from all over have come to help. A mother and son drove an hour from the other side of Hong Kong to help” stated Tracey Read. Tracey is a beach clean-up organizer with a local environmental group called DB Green, based in [...]
Aug. 20, 2012, plasticbagbanreport.com – Los Angeles County, California passed legislation banning single-use plastic bags on Nov. 16, 2010. In January, 2010, Washington, D.C. instituted a five cent fee on plastic bags provided by retailers at check-out. What economic effect did those two pieces of legislation have on their respective areas? Do plastic bag bans [...]
Mark Daniels, Vice President of Sustainability and Environmental Policy at Hilex Poly Co. LLC., talks about plastic bag bans. “There are a lot of things that are misinformed from the environmental community,” states Daniels. In an exclusive interview by Breitbart News at the Red State Gathering 2012 conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Daniels says that plastic [...]
California Retail Food Code | Plastic Bag Ban Report I am in a quandary. It has been stated many times that when a plastic bag ban goes into effect in California, that the ban must exempt restaurants. According to lawyers who fight plastic bag bans, the California Retail Food Code governs all ordinances that pertain [...]
When plastic bag bans first got started, their intention was to simply get rid of plastic bags. Of course, humans have such a ‘bag habit’ that, when plastic bags were no longer available, they turned to paper bags. Retailers were more than willing to give away paper bags just to keep customers content. When this [...]
Food Carts in Portland The city of Portland, Oregon has between 600 and 700 food carts throughout the city. Food Carts are “portable restaurants” along streetsides and provide practically any kind of food desirable to hundreds of people every day. Food carts serve quick, delicious meals to time-starved business people and downtown visitors looking for [...]
The following story is republished from and In Association with reuseit.com®. . . Helping advance the adoption of reusable shopping bags and reduction of plastic bags as a lifestyle choice. This article provides a “snapshot” of just how bad plastic litter is in our oceans and the harmful effects of this intimate relationship. Please read [...]
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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