Sentences with phrase «bag manufacturers»

Support for the city's bill has also faced intense lobbying from plastic bag manufacturers.

In an unassuming brick building on a gray Willamsburg street, adjacent to a used - car lot and several doors down from a polythene bag manufacturer, there is a portal to the West Coast.

Instead of making specific recommendations, the task force only outlined options, which also included stronger enforcement of existing laws to reduce plastic bag waste, a new fee on the bags and a requirement that bag manufacturers fund a program to collect and recycle them.

The council, which spent $ 8 million on lobbying alone last year, has also put together a front group called the Progressive Bag Affiliates, made up of top bag manufacturers like Hilex Poly, Superbag and Unistar Plastics.

However, the most common presentations of milk thistle include prepared tea bags, which are also commonly available in some larger supermarkets, whereas online retailers and specialty stores provide a wider variety of tea bag manufacturers, or offer ground milk thistle in combination with other similar herbs, as well as the seeds of the plant.

Britain's decision has apparently put the commercial interests of plastic bag manufacturers ahead of the need to tackle litter, blight and harm to wildlife.

Various dog waste bag manufacturers probably use terms such as biodegradability, degradable, dissolves, and others.

New from Timbuk2: The Grown Collection, a line of 13 different styles, including totes, backpacks, and laptop bags, all made from a hemp / PET blended fabrics — or in the PVC - eschewing bag manufacturer's words, «66 percent hemp, 33 percent PET, and 1 percent Al Gore mojo.»

This gorgeous bag comes from Swiss bag manufacturer FREITAG, which uses old, water - resistant truck tarpaulins, seat belts, and used bicycle tires to craft its stylish, high - end accessories.

Following her psychology degree at Nottingham Trent University, Olivia was headhunted for a job with a bean bag manufacturer...

The lawsuit against reusable bag maker ChicoBag brought about by a trio of disposable plastic bag manufacturers has come to a conclusion.

In an unassuming brick building on a gray Willamsburg street, adjacent to a used car lot and several doors down from a polythene bag manufacturer, there is a portal to the West Coast.

They have also rejected efforts from bag manufacturers and distributors to characterize the surcharge as a «tax,» noting that extra dime would go into store owners» pockets not the public coffers.

In a statement, the American Progressive Bag Alliance, a consortium of plastic bag manufacturers that opposed the Council bill, said the fee was unfair and of minimal value to the environment.

The ban was favored by environmentalists and some local elected officials, but bag manufacturers and grocery store owners said it would put jobs in jeopardy and drive up costs for consumers.

But once I studied the issue more and listened to my colleagues, environmentalists, retailers and bag manufacturers, I realized there may be alternative means to reach the ultimate goal of ridding ourselves of the nuisance these bags can cause.

Before TV, worked as a sales rep for a paper - bag manufacturer.

Tribune: Since February, the Pakistan - Environment Protection Agency (Pak - EPA) has been negotiating with the business community and plastic bag manufacturers to shift to an eco-friendly alternative for plastic bags.

Understandably, plastic - bag manufacturers have reacted swiftly to efforts to regulate bags — after all, even the cigarette, a product with no practical purpose that has been proved to kill people who use it, is not facing calls for an outright ban.