NY Bans Plastic Bags, Adopts Congestion Pricing in 2020 Budget Vote

New Yorkers will soon see some big changes after the state Senate signed off this weekend on a ban on plastic shopping bags as well as congestion ... food instead of throwing it. With one budget item, ... Read More

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Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding ... Paris cathedral after the devastating fire in 2019. When Paris F.C. made its tickets free, it ... Read More

Pittsburgh's plastic bag ban is working, environmentalists say

This is big news because, before the ban, the city produced a lot of bags. "Pittsburgh used something like 100 million single-use plastic bags every single year," Barber said. But there is some ... Read More

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Can plastic bags really be reused as many times as industry says? The plastic industry claims these heavy-duty plastic bags can be reused up to 125 times. Bay Area aquariums take stand against ... Read More

Reminder: Lawrence’s new single-use plastic bag ban takes effect Friday

As the Journal-World has reported, the ordinance defines a “single-use disposable plastic bag” as any plastic bag less than 4.0 mils of thickness — roughly equivalent to the thickness of a piece of ... Read More

This country banned plastic bags - should we?

Kenya has the world's toughest ban on single-use plastic bags - you can be fined thousands ... Anne Wood tells the story of how she created the Teletubbies. A special body suit for people with ... Read More

Do plastic bans work?

As the world drowns in a rising tide of plastic ... Rwanda pioneered these efforts in 2008 with a ban on one-way plastic bags and bottles, and the clean streets of the capital Kigali are the ... Read More

New Jersey plastic bag ban is a leader in reducing pollution

cited by the World Economic Forum, recognizes New Jersey’s plastic bag ban as the most effective of the 10 states in America with such bans. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in ... Read More

Selangor considering two-day ban on plastic bags

SELANGOR may implement a weekly two-day ban on plastic bags or raising charges for plastic bags as is being done in Penang. State tourism, environment, green technology and Orang Asli affairs ... Read More

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Are plastic ... News and nine ABC stations we assembled bundles of recyclable plastic bags, each containing a tracking device to see if those bags are being recycled at all. Plastic bag ban ... Read More

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