Sentences with phrase «billions of plastic bags»

But backers of the law contend Felder and other opponents haven't offered any alternatives on how to deal with the billions of plastic bags that wind up in landfills every year.

Billions of plastic bags are used in New York State every year.

«It's unfortunate, but not surprising, that the State Senate would vote to mandate that New York City waste billions of plastic bags each year,» said Councilman Brad Lander, a Brooklyn Democrat and one of the bill's sponsors.

Considering the fact that the program has diverted billions of plastic bags from landfill since being implemented in 2009, it was a classic Ford move.

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More than seven billion plastic bags were handed out by seven main retailers in 2014, but this figure dropped to just over half a billion in the first six months of this year after the 5p charge was introduced in October last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.

New Yorkers use 23 billion plastic bags each year, according to the findings of a state panel formed to study their effects on the environment.

The fate of plastic bags in New York — handed out by the billions by grocers, clothing stores, carry - out places and many other retailers — remains up in the air in the wake of a report by a state task force.

Supporters of the fee have said 10 billion plastic bags are thrown out a year in New York — amounting to 1,700 tons a week, and only 5 % of plastic bags are currently recycled in the city.

The councilman and other backers of the three - year bill, such as co-sponsor Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan), say the fee would reduce 60 to 90 percent of the more than 9.3 billion plastic bags New Yorkers throw away annually by promoting the use of reusable bags.

The Green Party of New York State announced its four top state legislative priorities for 2018: enact a statewide single payer universal health care program, enact a Green New Deal to promote full employment and accelerate the transition to 100 % clean energy, provide $ 40 billion or more in funding for mass transit in NYC and statewide, and enact a statewide ban on plastic bags.

Ms. Chin called plastic bag litter «one of the most pervasive environmental problems facing our city today,» claiming New Yorkers use 5.2 billion plastic bags per year: a mass that requires an annual $ 10 million in city funds to transport to landfills.The bill aims to reduce the number of bags used by up to 90 percent.

7 Speaking of plastic grocery bags, in 2009 Americans used 102 billion of them.

A minimum of 1.2 billion pounds of post-consumer film (which includes plastic bags and wrap) was recovered for recycling in 2015, which is a 34 million pound increase from 2014.

The recycling of plastic wraps, bags and other film packaging grew 34 million pounds, or 3 percent, in 2015 to reach a minimum of nearly 1.2 billion pounds for the year.

Consider China, a country of 1.3 billion, which consumes 3 billion plastic bags daily, according to China Trade News.

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The usefulness of these thin and easily ripped bags is extremely limited, yet according to one estimate, somewhere between five billion and one trillion plastic bags are used each year around the world.

The ACC also pushed to include more about plastic bag recycling in the text, but activists point out that despite the industry's efforts to push recycling as a solution to plastic pollution, less than 10 % of the 100 billion plastic bags used in the United States each year are recycled, and recycling does not address the impact plastic bags and packaging have on both animal and human health.

As a result, via simple multiplication, those 100 billion plastic bags equal 20 trillion grams of CO2, which converts to 20 million metric tonnes of CO2.

Our corporations are making billions of dollars selling their products in disposal plastic containers but are refusing to take responsibility for what happens to the 100s of millions of plastic containers and bags that move through our global economy every single day.

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Italians use 25 % of the disposable plastic bags produced annually in all of the European Union — 20 to 25 billion bags per year, depending on where you find the statistic.

To make 100 billion plastic checkout bags per year, which is how many we use in the U.S. each year, it takes 12 million barrels of oil.

For example, in 2009 we reduced our plastic bag waste globally by about 66.5 million pounds, which is the equivalent of approximately 4.8 billion shopping bags.

But then we learn that Target's ban on single use plastic bags amounts to «just under 3 per cent of the 4 billion bags that pass through checkouts each year,» in Australia.