Sentences with phrase «cost of plastic bags»

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The reflexive answer to how much plastic bags should cost is to add the cost of materials and labor in making them, but we know that answer is insufficient.

On top of this, it can cost up to $ 4,000 a ton to recycle plastic bags, and the resulting polymers are worth only a fraction of the cost, rendering the recycling of plastic bags economically unsustainable.

Rapak, a part of DS Smith, Plastics division offers cost effective solutions for bag - in - box, filling equipment and intermediate bulk containers (ibc) for the liquid packaging industry with minimum impact on the environment.

These big plastic bags of wipes cost a little less than just buying a new plastic box each time, and they don't take up much room to store.

; they come individually packaged (it takes a special kind of idiot to sell a nursing pad in a plastic bag that says «keep away from baby»); and they cost $ 7.50 USD per package of 60.

Plastic bags pose hazards to wildlife and pollute our lands and bays, while paper bags damage the environment through the cost of their production.

Green officers said that if the Legislature and Governor were truly concerned about the costs of the fee, they would move quickly to ban plastic bags entirely as California and Hawaii have done.

Frankly, the true costs (financial and other) of a plastic bag are not covered by the user... they will end up being paid for by others — in many cases tax payers.

There were visual aids, employed to score points on both sides — a loaf of Wonder Bread and a dozen eggs, held aloft to demonstrate the burden of grocery costs, and a gray reusable tote bag, displayed as a simple alternative to plastic — and even some alliterative jargon: «petroleum - based product,» Mr. de Blasio's term for the bags.

Both bag men argued that more extensive recycling programs are the solution to the thousands of tons of plastic bags that move through the city sanitation system each week, and which amount to an estimated annual public cost of $ 10 million.

Most municipal curbside recycling programs do not accept plastic bags of any type, and high separation and processing costs often limit their profitability in the recycled commodity market.

Ron Barna, manager of Lake Eola Park in Orlando, said the city has supplied plastic bags throughout the park for almost two years, at an annual cost of about $ 800.

«Sustainability is made of little changes to our lifestyle that don't cost us anything and can save the planet,» said Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italian Environmental Minister, as she confirmed that a ban on non-biodegradable, single - use plastic bags will take effect on 1 January 2011, for all of Italy.

But their arguments seem weak in light of the fact that the ban, originally announced for January 2010, has already been delayed a year to give the industry time for transition.Further arguments include the cost of biodegradable bags (4 - 5 times more), and the fact that biodegradable plastics can not yet meet the technical specifications that the non-biodegradable plastics meet; read: the biodegradable bags rip even as consumers pack their purchases at the cash register.

«All of a sudden the five cents is really becoming a sticking point with people and it wasn't really before, so I want to get rid of it,» Mayor Ford said of what it costs in Toronto to get a plastic bag at a store.

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.