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She said that the UK was a «world leader» when it came to cutting down plastic waste, citing recent policy changes from banning micro-beads in cosmetic products to 5p charges on plastic bags in supermarkets.

The Boomerang Alliance, along with groups like the Total Environment Centre, will use Thursday's inquiry to call for a container deposit scheme, a ban on single - use plastic shopping bags and microbeads in laundry and cosmetic products, and continued enforcement of existing regulations.

In recent years, bans on plastic bags have taken hold in jurisdictions dotting the United States.

This is in response to the ban on plastic bags and people bringing their own bags to the store.

Supporters of the plastic bag fee say it's designed to cut down on environmentally harmful waste and surcharges in other cities have worked better than outright bans.

I wonder how it is that a surcharge on plastic bags rather then an outright ban was found to work better?

NYC First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said the administration would support a ban or fee on plastic shopping bags, which the City Council has been eying to pass.

Felder insisted the decision was not based on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed ban on plastic bags, but would not answer when asked if Cuomo had personally pressured him to change sides in the Senate.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo embraced a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, introducing a bill to outlaw them by next year day after Earth Day and a little more than a year after he blocked a 5 - cent surcharge that New York City had sought to place on single - use plastic bags.

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

Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo endorsed a statewide ban on single - use plastic bags, as reported here by Daily Voice.

Cuomo on Monday unveiled legislation that would ban single - use, plastic carryout shopping bags in New York.

A ban on single - use plastic bags was one of several options put forward in January by a task force Cuomo created to study the issue of plastic bag waste.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Two Democratic state lawmakers from Manhattan on Monday called for a statewide ban on the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag and a fee on paper bags as a way to encourage renewable alternatives and crack down on one of the greatest sources of environmental pollution.

Urge Governor Cuomo and your state Senator and Assemblymember to co-sponsor and fight to enact S7760 / A9953 that would ban polluting single - use plastic bags and place a 10 - cent fee on paper.

He also said he supports a ban on plastic bags, something Cuomo recently proposed.

ALBANY — As his Democratic gubernatorial challenger joined environmental protesters outside the Capitol, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed a ban on single - use plastic bags at stores throughout New York State.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted: «We need to ban plastic bags — the time for debate on this is over.

However, we continue to support either a fee on all single - use bags, which has been effective in many jurisdictions including Suffolk County, or a ban on plastic bags with a fee on all other single - use bags.

Not long after the marchers reached the Capitol, Cuomo issued a news release announcing his proposal for a statewide ban on plastic shopping bags.

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A ban on helicopters would be even more popular (with people, as well as fish and birds) on the East End, as helicopters are far more invasive than plastic bags.

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.

In the years since the Suffolk County Legislature last discussed, then dropped, the idea of banning single - use plastic bags, here are some things legislators have chosen to take action on:

I live in Southampton Town where since last year there's been a ban on single - use plastic bags, and it works fine.

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.

On the health committee's agenda this afternoon is a bill the county is considering to ban plastic bags.

It's now up to legislators to tackle the issue head - on and adopt a resolution that will ban single - use plastic bags throughout Suffolk County.

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.

The Green Party today said that if Assembly Speaker Heastie is unwilling to recognize the right of NYC to enact a law restricting plastic bags, then he should enact a statewide ban on plastic bags.

Hawaii also has a de facto ban on plastic bags since all its counties have instituted bans.

Among the NYS communities already banning plastic bags are New Paltz; East Hampton and South Hampton, on Long Island; and Larchmont, Rye and Mamaroneck in Westchester County.

The body needs to consider whether the state should ban paper and plastic carry - out products, whether a tax on such bags is the best approach, and if so, at what level and who should be the beneficiary.

Cuomo's proposal comes three months after a state task force laid out a range of options to address plastic - bag pollution, including a statewide ban or a small per - bag fee on consumers.

Perhaps he can expand upon it by urging fellow legislators to support a countywide ban on plastic bags and continue the push for affordable septic systems to improve water quality.

Two state lawmakers last month proposed legislation that would ban plastic bags statewide, and put a fee on paper bags.

Two state lawmakers from Manhattan, Sens. Liz Krueger and Brad Hoylman, last month proposed legislation that would ban plastic bags statewide, and put a fee between 10 cents and a quarter on paper bags.

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.

Still, the council in the letter to Cuomo says the bag fee is more preferable than an outright ban on plastic bags in New York City.

«While the retail industry recognizes and appreciates that the fee would supplant the far-less desirable ban on the use of plastic carryout bags, we are concerned that the underpinning message blames the city's retail industry for an environmental disaster but simultaneously puts it in line to score a new profit center from it.»

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.

So when someone says they want to ban plastic bags, that's not what the legislation says, whether it's on the county level or in New York City.»

Two Democratic state lawmakers from Manhattan called for a statewide ban on the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag and a fee on paper bags as a way to encourage renewable alternatives and crack down on one of the greatest sources of environmental pollution.

«It's not simply a ban on plastic bags,» Flanagan told reporters in Albany.

Suffolk County residents hopeful for a decision regarding a proposed ban on single - use plastic bags at retail stores across the county will have to keep waiting.

One year after locals expressed an outpouring of support for a townwide ban on plastic bags, a group of residents at Tuesday's Southold Town Board meeting had a question: What happened?