Sentences with phrase «ban plastic bags used»

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Petition your local supermarket, council, or government, to ban single - use plastic bags — this has already happened in some countries around the world (although not yet NZ or Australia!).

Harvest Market's decision to stop using plastic bags preceded a city ordinance that went into effect in late 2012 banning their use in all grocery stores.

The Boomerang Alliance, along with groups like the Total Environment Centre, will use Thursday's inquiry to call for a container deposit scheme, a ban on single - use plastic shopping bags and microbeads in laundry and cosmetic products, and continued enforcement of existing regulations.

Groups such as Clean Up Australia have long campaigned for plastic bags to be banned «forever,» and in March last year hopes were buoyed when federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he was prepared to use the «bully pulpit» of government to «get rid of» plastic bags.

Banning single - use plastic bags makes sense, as long as it doesn't usher in behaviours that are just as bad, or worse — like over-using heavier bags made of even more plastic.

According to the governor's office, the bill would «ban the provision of single - use, plastic carryout bags at any point of sale,» while garment bags, trash bags and any bags used to wrap or contain certain foods would be exempt.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo embraced a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, introducing a bill to outlaw them by next year day after Earth Day and a little more than a year after he blocked a 5 - cent surcharge that New York City had sought to place on single - use plastic bags.

Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorsed a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, as reported here by Daily Voice.

Cuomo on Monday unveiled legislation that would ban single - use, plastic carryout shopping bags in New York.

A ban on single - use plastic bags was one of several options put forward in January by a task force Cuomo created to study the issue of plastic bag waste.

Urge Governor Cuomo and your state Senator and Assemblymember to co-sponsor and fight to enact S7760 / A9953 that would ban polluting single - use plastic bags and place a 10 - cent fee on paper.

ALBANY — As his Democratic gubernatorial challenger joined environmental protesters outside the Capitol, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed a ban on single - use plastic bags at stores throughout New York State.

It says that plastic bag bans — exactly what Cuomo now proposes — backfired in San Jose, Chicago and Honolulu, as merchants just switched to using slightly heavier «reusable» plastics or relied more on paper bags.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) introduced legislation Monday to ban single - use plastic bags at stores and restaurants.

As the activists poured into the building, Cuomo countered the criticism by announcing a proposal to ban the use of plastic shopping bags.

However, we continue to support either a fee on all single - use bags, which has been effective in many jurisdictions including Suffolk County, or a ban on plastic bags with a fee on all other single - use bags.

The Village of New Paltz in Ulster County banned single - use plastic bags last November.

The Erie County Legislature majority will turn down County Executive Mark Poloncarz's request for a $ 75,000 study to consider the effect of banning the use of plastic bags by grocery stores, retailers and restaurants.

In the years since the Suffolk County Legislature last discussed, then dropped, the idea of banning single - use plastic bags, here are some things legislators have chosen to take action on:

I live in Southampton Town where since last year there's been a ban on single - use plastic bags, and it works fine.

And while other places that have banned plastic bags have found that some businesses exploit loopholes and continue polluting by using thicker plastic bags that degrade more slowly, both our neighbors in Southampton Town and a county in California have found success with their bans.

It's now up to legislators to tackle the issue head - on and adopt a resolution that will ban single - use plastic bags throughout Suffolk County.

On the town banning single - use plastic bags: Rallis: I came out in support of a plastic bag ban... It's the right thing to do.

Governor Cuomo introduced a bill today that would ban single - use plastic bags statewide, starting next year.

As the newspaper launches its own campaign to ban bags, Mr Brown said cutting plastic bag use is «one of the most straightforward ways we can all do something directly to improve our environment and reduce pollution».

«While the retail industry recognizes and appreciates that the fee would supplant the far-less desirable ban on the use of plastic carryout bags, we are concerned that the underpinning message blames the city's retail industry for an environmental disaster but simultaneously puts it in line to score a new profit center from it.»

Around the time Nixon was joining hundreds of demonstrators at a rally outside the state Capitol, Cuomo announced he was introducing legislation that would ban all single - use, plastic carryout bags in New York state.

As hundreds of advocates rallied in Albany against climate change and to push Gov. Andrew Cuomo to do more on the issue, his office announced legislation on Monday that would institute a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags by 2019.

Suffolk County residents hopeful for a decision regarding a proposed ban on single - use plastic bags at retail stores across the county will have to keep waiting.

Southampton and East Hampton Towns, as well as several villages within those towns, have enacted bans of single - use plastic bags of their own.

Mr. Russell said a countywide ban on single - use plastic bags would be ideal.

Rallis: I support the plastic bag ban as an environmentalist, as a human being, as a guy who uses reusable bags.

Based on recommendations included in the report, the Governor is introducing a program bill that would ban the provision of single - use, plastic carryout bags at any point of sale, and would provide the Department of Environmental Conservation with exclusive jurisdiction over all matters related to plastic bags and film plastic recycling.

This action follows the release of the New York State Plastic Bags Task Force report in January, which outlined the environmental impact of plastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastiPlastic Bags Task Force report in January, which outlined the environmental impact of plastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastic bBags Task Force report in January, which outlined the environmental impact of plastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastiplastic bags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plastic bbags, single - use bag reduction measures, and proposed actions that the state could take to reduce pollution and protect New York's natural resources, including a ban on single - use plasticplastic bagsbags.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced on Monday a bill that would ban single - use carryout plastic bags statewide.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has introduced a program bill that would ban all single - use, plastic carryout bags

As a sit - in was held outside his offices, the governor proposed a bill banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, beginning in 2019.

Suffolk County legislators introduced a bill Tuesday to ban single - use plastic bags at retail stores across the county, a move both town's supervisors have argued makes more sense than any town - wide ban.

The proposed bill would also ban single - use plastic bags and impose a 10 cent fee for paper.

If the use of plastic bags isn't reduced by at least 75 percent in three years, then the «idea of an outright ban can be revisited at a later date,» according to the legislation.

North Fork County Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue), who has supported a countywide plastic bag ban, said he supported the nickel charge for single - use bags because he believes it will reduce litter.

Retailers are evading such bans elsewhere by handing out thicker plastic bags that meet a statutory definition of reusable but are generally in use for less than 20 minutes, then litter the earth for 200 years.

Suffolk County legislators were considering pulling the trigger on a single - use plastic bag ban.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN)- Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday introduced a bill which would ban single - use plastic bags in New York State.

For months, Suffolk lawmakers had debated a straight ban on plastic bags and had settled on the fee on «single use» paper and plastic bags as a compromise with grocery store owners and labor unions that represent workers.

Bans, partial bans or taxes on single - use plastic bags currently exist in more than 40 countries, including Kenya, China, France, Rwanda and ItBans, partial bans or taxes on single - use plastic bags currently exist in more than 40 countries, including Kenya, China, France, Rwanda and Itbans or taxes on single - use plastic bags currently exist in more than 40 countries, including Kenya, China, France, Rwanda and Italy.

This new state legislation corresponds to a report made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Plastic Bag Task Force, as well as the ban in California — the first state to ban single - use plastic bags iPlastic Bag Task Force, as well as the ban in California — the first state to ban single - use plastic bags iplastic bags in 2016.

As a sit - in was held outside his offices, the governor proposed a bill banning the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, beginning in 2019.

A law banning the production and use of plastic bags in Ivory Coast is set to take effect from November 23.

With 125 employees and more than $ 120 million in annual revenues, the ACC and its members are using their deep pockets and extensive political connections to overturn bans on plastic bags, cast doubt on legitimate scientific studies and even file lawsuits against anti-bag activists.