February 18, 2020 –
“Yet single-use plastic bags aren’t the worst environmental choice at the supermarket—they’re the best. High-density polyethylene bags are a marvel of economic, engineering and environmental efficiency.”
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New York’s plastic bag ban is broken, but it isn’t too late to fix it.
More »February 14, 2020 –
Could plastic bag bans be based on inaccurate data? Bloomberg Environment investigates.
More »February 13, 2020 –
CNY Central swabbed reusable bags and found dangerous bacteria lurking inside.
More »February 10, 2020 –
New York consumers and businesses alike are completely unprepared for the plastic bag ban about to be launched across the state, which will result in widespread confusion and chaos for weeks — if not many months — to come.
More »February 10, 2020 –
What’s lurking on your reusable bags? KOAT swabbed several reusable bags, and the results found that they were extremely dirty.
More »February 9, 2020 –
It’s the epitome of being nickel-and-dimed to death. New York’s ban on plastic bags takes effect on March 1. You won’t be able to use the bags to tote your groceries home from the supermarket anymore. And if you want the supermarket to provide you with paper bags, that’ll cost you 5 cents each.
More »February 7, 2020 –
In a recent letter to the editor, a reader expresses her concerns about dirty reusable bags.
More »February 4, 2020 –
A paper bag shortage is certain to occur in New York “even in the most optimistic of scenarios” once a statewide plastic bag ban is implemented, according to the findings of a report conducted by a leading international business research firm.
More »January 29, 2020 –
It turns out that banning plastic bags doesn’t mean that people will stop using them. Plastic retail bags are highly reused, so bans just result in people buying trash bags to replace the retail bags that they were once getting for free.
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