Sentences with phrase «bag ban»

There's been a plastic bag ban for the last few years.

For example, single - use grocery bag bans are being adopted across the country, showing manufacturers and consumers that progress is occurring in this sector.

But as bag bans gain momentum around the country, hopefully that number can start to drop.

I'm always in two minds about plastic bag bans.

The Surfrider Foundation applauds the historic passage of Proposition 67, which upholds the nation's first statewide plastic bag ban in California.

Errol Louis analyzed Cuomo's proposed plastic bag ban as Cynthia Nixon focuses on the environment, with the Monday Consultants Corner: Democrats Lupe Todd - Medina and Charlie King, and Republicans O'Brien Murray and J.C. Polanco.

Hawkins supports a statewide plastic bag ban similar to California coupled with a fee on paper bags, as Sen. Liz Krueger has already introduced.

Rise Above Plastics - The Rise Above Plastics campaigns that have found success with plastic bag bans across the nation have risen up to be recognized at the federal level.

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SECOS, an ASX - listed subsidiary of Cardia Bioplastics, has welcomed the recent plastic bag bans by Australian supermarkets as a producer of what it describes as compostable and Biohybrid plastic products.

Marcia Bystryn, president of the New York League of Conservation Voters, dissented from the task force report because it neither backed a universal fee like the city tried or combined a thin - plastic - bag ban with a fee on other bags, like California has now sensibly adopted.

On the first of this month, Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to put a plastic bag ban into effect.

The success of the plastic bag ban announced by Australia's big two supermarkets will hinge on whether they can persuade customers to change an engrained behaviour - without annoying them.

Currently, 10 municipalities in the state have plastic bag bans while some others, including Long Beach and Suffolk County, have enacted fees.

Howie Hawkins called Governor Cuomo's plastic bag ban proposal yesterday a publicity stunt designed to divert attention from thousands of climate change activists at the Capitol on Monday saying it was time for Cuomo to Walk the Talk.

Even Cuomo's own state panel recently found more cons than pros when it comes to banning single - use plastic bags, writing «plastic bag bans do not always equate to reduction in plastic bag use.»

A renewed plastic bag ban discussion wouldn't be the first time the County Legislature has broached the subject, or even the first time it passed a ban.

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The first Plastics BAN List launched in 2017 to support the successful California plastic bag ban Proposition 67; the Plastics BAN List 3.0 will dovetail with our work in Southeast Asia.

Her work has included a leadership role in the passage of the DC Bag Tax Bill, and assistance on other bag bans and bills.

Team Marine students were instrumental in the.California statewide plastic bag ban signed into law.

Currently state senators are considering a ban on local bag bans, bill H3529.

Bag bans create opportunity: So, how do you deal with dog poop when plastic shopping bags get banned in your locale?

County - wide bag ban approved.

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This NBC video report checks in on the first day of the ban.Plastic bag bans like these have proven hugely effective elsewhere — by one count, China's ban has kept some 100 billion bags out of the landfill since it was put into effect two years ago.

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Environmental groups, particularly those that have been actively supporting plastic bag bans in California, are apoplectic about the edits to the curriculum.

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

By Phil ScullionFollow @PhilScullion Boris Johnson has called for a plastic bag ban across London to help combat waste and litter.

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Both Southampton and East Hampton towns — following the lead of several villages within their boundaries — have had plastic bag bans in place for years.

Romy Tittel, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta and Catriona Wright, Shadow Cabinet member for Sustainable Towns and Cities, strongly encourages the Alberta Government to quickly adopt the following in order to keep recyclables out of the landfill: An immediate plastic bag ban.

This is in response to «Brown - bag ban; To encourage healthy eating, one Chicago school won't allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — some parents, and many students, aren't fans of the policy» (Page 1, April 11).

Under the Cuomo plan, New York would join a growing number of state and local entities — including 10 in New York State — that already have some level of plastic bag bans or tax programs in place.

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan didn't comment on Cuomo's proposed plastic bag ban.

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.

The county executive has been on the bag ban bandwagon for some time now.

As the environment continues to deteriorate — and thousands of single - use bags fly off the shelves each day across the county — it's time for the Legislature to step up and revive talks about a bag ban.

As far as we've heard, the plastic bag bans in Southampton and East Hampton have had little to no effect on those towns» economies.

Things have changed since the 1990s, the last time the county looked seriously at a plastic bag ban.

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.

Nixon, who supports placing a fee on plastic bags in New York City, was asked about the bag ban issue during her first campaign trip to Buffalo last Wednesday.

In approving a bill to put a moratorium on NYC's bag tax, Cuomo joined a group of Republican governors — Arizona's Doug Ducey, Idaho's Butch Otter, Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Vice President and former Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, to name a few — who have approved bans on, well, bag bans.

While government officials argue amongst themselves over plastic bag bans or fees, consumers and businesses are taking matters into their own hands.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, called the city's bag ban «deeply flawed» when he signed legislation to block the local law from taking effect.

Ten cities, towns and villages in New York state already have plastic bag bans in place, according to the governor's office.

Mr. Russell had opposed a plastic bag ban that affected only Southold Town, saying local legislation would put North Fork businesses at a disadvantage compared to their nearby competitors, who could continue using plastic bags.

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.