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A Christian charity's hailing a 5p tax which has caused plastic bag use to go down by more than six billion... More

A Christian charity's hailing a 5p tax which has caused plastic bag use to go down by more than six billion since it came in.

I must admit, I really like your container, it's a lot easier for me to handle over the plastic bag used by Nutiva.

As one of the leading manufacturers of plastic bags used in the foodservice and grocery industries, Pak - Sher understands the specific needs of its customers and uses that information more thoroughly than any of its competitors.

ice candy ice candy one of the things i usually bring back from the philippines is a small packet of narrow plastic bags used for making ice candy.

According to the latest figures from IRI, a leading provider of FMCG market intelligence and predictive, actionable insight, government targets to reduce the number of plastic bags used by English shoppers has not only been met, but exceeded.

Love that it has a strap to hang and more eco friendly than the plastic bags she uses for dirty clothes.

The less plastic bags we all use, the better.

Other council members pointed to studies showing plastic bag use is on the rise in cities that have instituted similar punitive fees, like San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

In other cities with similar policies, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, plastic bag use has dropped sharply, the bill's supporters noted.

Mr. Felder's bill would apply to all cities in the state, potentially affecting a handful of towns and counties that have considered policies designed to limit plastic bag use.

ALBANY - State lawmakers may be about to put the bag on the city's plans to charge shoppers a nickel for each plastic bag they use.

Today Mr Brown praised Ikea's policies, which have seen it cut plastic bag use by 95 per cent, and Marks and Spencer's recent decision to charge for bags.

As the newspaper launches its own campaign to ban bags, Mr Brown said cutting plastic bag use is «one of the most straightforward ways we can all do something directly to improve our environment and reduce pollution».

State lawmakers may be about to put the bag on NYC's plans to charge shoppers a nickel for each plastic bag they use.

I'm all in favor of green, even the green plastic bags used at Healthy Living grocery store, but alas the Green Party stands for more than that.

«Given the fact that a five - cent fee will likely reduce plastic bag use by anywhere from 60 percent to two - thirds, we'll take two - thirds of a loaf over nothing anytime,» he said.

In other municipalities, Mr. Turner said, enacting such a fee did result in a reduction of paper and plastic bag use.

Among the other exemptions: plastic bags used for produce, small paper medicine bags at pharmacies, bags used at state - regulated liquor stores and bags used by soup kitchens.

The plan: Fund a study that would lay the framework for a new local law to either prohibit grocery stores and other retailers from giving out plastic bags to shoppers, or establish financial penalties for plastic bag use.

Ireland's «plastax,» launched in 2002, has resulted in a 90 percent voluntary reduction in plastic bag use.

Scientists detected the plastic bag using the Deep - Sea Debris Database, which has captured a collection of photos and videos from divers over the past 30 years.

Consigned by the New York gallery Luhring Augustine, the material for sale includes vintage photographs from the 1960s of teenagers shooting up and hooking up and the so - called «Heroin» series from 2014 — abstract oil paintings into which small plastic bags used for drug storage are embedded.

As it turns out my local council, in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic bags used in it's community are distributing a reusable bag to every household in its constituency: — RRB - It comes folded up in a fairly small block (no packaging, it folds into itself and has a Velcro tab to keep it folded) so it's easy to throw in my backpack or carry around so when I can't fit any more into my backpack it's right there again and again!

Whether it's an all - out ban, limitations, or fees for use, such actions have been proven to reduce plastic bag use — something that absolutely must happen.

Its lobbyists have previously been caught editing environmental textbooks in California to support plastic bag use.

Only 1 percent of the 4 trillion plastic bags used annually is recycled.

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.

May also hopes to encourage the 52 countries in the Commonwealth to join the UK in banning microbeads and restricting plastic bag use.

«We have already banned harmful microbeads and cut plastic bag use, and now we want to take action on straws, stirrers and cotton buds to help protect our marine life.»

To meet certification standards on its farms, Chiquita has worked to protect forest preserves, plant buffer zones of trees along waterways, recycle the large blue plastic bags used to cover bunches of ripening bananas, and improve facilities for workers.

Rachel's problem is not traffic, nor plastic bag use (she brings her own), but rather, firstly, the fact that many markets are too infrequent to have a real impact on farmers» income, and secondly, that they are still seen as too elitist and expensive.

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It was a huge success, reducing plastic bag use by half, but Mayor Ford didn't like it, saying people were irritated by it.

IKEA projects that the number of plastic bags used by their U.S. customers will be reduced by at least 50 % from 70 million to 35 million in the first year.

Ethical Consumer magazine has noted that «one green superstore, a vague aim to reduce plastic bag use and sponsorship - read advertising - of healthy events does not constitute a multi-national taking its impact seriously».

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.

Not exact matches

Do shoppers come away with merchandise in custom rope - handled shopping bags or in used plastic bags from the grocery store?

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier used in walls in newly built residential construction projects.

Lightweight construction, allows you to scoop directly into a bag, can be used with regular plastic grocery bags, 3 - foot handle means no stooping, ergonomic handles for comfort, very affordable

After some thinking, we found the solution in fusing used plastic bags into durable sheets and then sewing those sheets together into a designer bag.

«Recent internal research has identified that our customers feel we use too many plastic bags and that the reduction and elimination of plastic bags are the responsibility of both consumers and retailers,» said Tappenden.

Mississauga, ON., January 25, 2016 — Walmart Canada today announced that beginning Feb. 9, 2016, it will stop providing free plastic bags to customers in an effort to promote the use of reusable bags and ultimately eliminate plastic film from land - fill.

«We know from our experience in other international markets that an incentive in the form of a fee to encourage customers to adopt reusable bags reduces single - use plastic bags by more than 50 %.

Five - cent plastic bag fee to discourage single use bags and eliminate plastic film from municipal land - fill to be implemented at Walmart stores in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec...

This unique dog pooper scooper features a compact design that is perfect for walks or traveling, and uses any plastic bag for sanitary pickups.

Even in the pouring rain, one man offered one of us his plastic bag he was using as a raincoat.