Sentences with phrase «bag charging legislation»

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Under the legislation, restaurants, including those that deliver and serve takeout, and street vendors of prepared food will not have to charge for the plastic bags they give to customers.

The second scenario in which industry coalitions working with MRFs succeed is when legislation drives change through mandated guide, like the ban of plastic bag use in San Francisco in 2007; consumers were charged 10 cents per bag, creating cost incentives to use reusable bags, and other municipalities followed suit.

The Welsh Labour Government has shown itself laudably proactive in pursuing environmentally friendly (the plastic bag charging schemes began in Cardiff) and community focussed public health legislation («active travel», deemed consent for organ donation, food hygiene ratings, licensing of tattooists, restriction of intimate piercing, restriction of public and child exposure to tobacco smoke, registration of tobacconists).