Sentences with phrase «hundreds of plastic bags»

She even talks about the far - reaching effects of America's plastic bag habit — and how to curb it: «I was working in Tangiers in Morocco a while ago and literally there were hundreds of plastic bags floating through the air like tumbleweeds.

Two supporters of the 5 - cent plastic bag fee, Councilman Brad Lander, a Democrat from Brooklyn, and Oliver Harwood, who wore a costume made of hundreds of plastic bags, in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

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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.

Plastic can take hundreds of years to degrade, so bottles and bags can be a danger to wildlife, strangling birds, mammals and fish, and soaking up toxic chemicals from seawater that can poison any creatures that swallow them.

Scientists estimate that it can take hundreds of years for a plastic bag to completely break down.

All manipulatives (22in x 34in Work Mat, Wooden Tray, 100 unit cubes, 27 ten rods, 27 hundred flats, 17 1000 cubes (1 plastic, 16 oak tag), Foam Ball, Balance, Mirror, Ruler, Crayons, 2 Dice, 108 Color - Coded Number Cards in partitioned wood tray (3 each of 1 -9,10-90,100-900,1000-9000), 108 Number Tiles (27 each of 1, 10, 100, 1000), 14 Operator Cards, Dominoes, Probability Bag with Tie, Geared Clock, 1 1 - cup Measuring Cup, 1 2 - cup Measuring Cup, 64 Painted Wooden Geometric Shapes (Diamond, Circle, Heart, Square, Rectangle, Trapezoid, Parallelogram in assorted colors), plastic coins, and pencil)

BAVA is a 501c3 organization that provides hundreds of hours of service annually to the dog park by watering, spreading mulch, filling holes, collecting and bagging trash and «poop», painting, repairing the fence, restoring grass, rounding up recycled plastic bags and providing fund raising and park beautification projects such as tree planting, table and bench assembly, memory plaques, shade sails, patios, pet fountains and much more!

The search led to the discovery of a plastic bag containing six hundred and fifty six grams of cannabis.

«The planet has been through a lot worse than us... been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages — and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?»

From microbeads to plastic bags to Styrofoam and more, we're teaming with hundreds of thousands of people all over the planet to work for upstream Solutions to plastic pollution.

The entire country of China has banned plastic bags, thereby saving China hundreds of thousands of gallons of fossil fuel and preventing thousands of tons of global warming gas from entering the atmosphere.