Sentences with phrase «tons of plastic bags»

In Boston, 20 tons of plastic bags are thrown into the city's single - stream recycling each month, O'Malley said, causing workers to spend hours each day removing bags from the equipment.

The New York Times» Elisabeth Rosenthal reports that New York spends «$ 10 million annually to send 100,000 tons of plastic bags that are tossed in the general trash to landfills in South Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.»

• More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were discarded in 2008.

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.

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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.

I'm going to make them out of cotton gauze with a simple drawstring, so I don't have to have tons of flimsy plastic bags that I throw away each time I go to the grocery store or farmer's market.

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 measure would, in a stroke, force the city to accept the perpetuation of the plastic - trash free - for - all, with tons of discarded bags clogging the sewers, festooning tree branches and littering sidewalks.

More than 8 million tons of plastic trash end up in the ocean every year, including millions of disposable plastic bags.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2009 about 3.8 million tons of waste plastic «bags, sacks and wraps» were generated in the United States, but only 9.4 % of this total was recycled.

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.

Eight million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year; the equivalent of five grocery bags per every foot of coastline across the planet.

8 million metric tons of plastic is equal to 5 bags filled with plastic going into the ocean along every foot of coastline in the world.

As U.S. Cities Waver on Plastic Bag Tax, China's Bag Ban Saved 1.6 Million Tons of Oil Plastic Bag Fees: Tax the Poor to Feed the Ego of the Rich!