October 19, 2011 – Tbnewswatch.com –
The town of Sioux Lookout has decided to repeal its controversial ban on plastic shopping bags.
More »October 7, 2011 – Timesnews.net –
You too can help make a park bench at Bays Mountain. In case you’re hip deep in grocery or other plastic store bags and don’t know what to do with them Bays Mountain Park will gladly take them off your hands. The park has recently launched a “Bags to Benches” initiative where patrons can drop off used (but clean) plastic bags. For every 10,000 bags collected, the park receives one free composite wood bench.
More »September 29, 2011 – The Orange County Register –
The Huntington Beach City Council is scheduled Monday to consider taking the next step in potentially banning the sale and use of plastic grocery bags. As we have editorialized, such a policy is invasive and overreaching, but as Monday’s meeting will illustrate it is also costly to the city because the city will have to invest nearly $40,000 to study the ban’s environmental impacts.
More »August 3, 2011 – Huffington Post –
Plastic bag recycling has caught some attention in recent months as the ongoing discussion of plastic bag legislation has become a highly debated topic.
More »July 13, 2011 – Huffington Post –
Environmentalists are often attacked from the political right for favoring too much regulation even though most Americans agree with their larger objectives. Given these attacks from the right it behooves those of us who want to clean up the air and water to think carefully before pushing regulatory initiatives that are not clearly beneficial. So today’s question is will bans on plastic grocery bags really improve the environment?
More »July 2, 2011 – Honolulu Star Advertiser –
At Kmart in Lihue, the cashiers are still apologizing with every transaction: “Sorry. We don’t have bags. Sorry, yeah? No more bags.” At Longs Kukui Grove, purchases are placed in brown paper bags labeled RECYCLEABLE in big, almost defensive letters, as if to say “Yeah, it’s a bag, but it’s not a BAD bag.”
More »June 14, 2011 – CNN –
More and more of us are trying to live greener. We buy organic, we recycle. We even are being encouraged to use our own bags when we shop. It’s all an effort to avoid waste and save the planet. But now, one of those planet saving efforts apparently comes with its own set of problems. Those reusable bags, if not handled correctly, might actually cause consumers harm.
More »June 8, 2011 – Discovery Channel –
Even for the most die-hard reusable bag carrier, plastic bags have a way of sneaking into your house–holding loaves of bread, hidden in cereal boxes, on those days you forget your tote at the supermarket, from the clothing stores at the mall. And once you let one in, they multiply like crazy; they’re nearly impossible to contain. But if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right? The reuse potential of plastic bags is practically endless.
More »May 25, 2011 – Democrat Herald –
The plastic bag ban ought to be defeated and forgotten. Nobody is forced to take one at the store. People who accept them often use them again, usually as trash bags. So the latest compromise proposal is not much better than the ban.
More »May 25, 2011 – KGUN –
Many people are switching to reusable grocery bags because they’re better for the planet. But could going green actually make you sick?
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