The Los Angeles City Council today voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. The city becomes the largest in the country to adopt an ordinance to phase out plastic grocery bags.
Five years after a failed push to tax single-use plastic shopping bags, the City Council is preparing new legislation to get New Yorkers to find another way to carry groceries, goods and take-out. Environmentalists are massing in support, but industry opposition is likely.
The Italian government has passed a law banning the sale of non-biodegradable plastic bags, despite a legal challenge by the United Kingdom government, which claims Rome is breaching EU internal market rules.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Degradable plastics in North Carolina must now be labeled to prevent contamination of recyclable feedstocks, thanks to a measure approved June 5 by the state Legislature.
Members of the Maine Statehouse have plastics on the brain. The House rejected a bill May 30 that would have required shoppers to pay 5 cents for plastic shopping bags. Just days earlier, the House voted unanimously in favor of banning bisphenol A from infant formula cans and baby-food jar lids.
California legislators again failed to approve a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. The 18-17 vote in favor of the bill in the state Senate failed to reach the 21-vote threshold for passage.
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HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government wants to expand its 4-year-old ban on free plastic shopping bags to cover the vast majority of retailers in the densely-populated city, saying the measure is needed to reduce a landfill space crunch.
CHICAGO — In China, it's the year of the snake. In the United States, it's the year of the plastic bag. More specifically, the year of legislative activity surrounding the use, taxation and recycling of plastic bags.
HARTSVILLE, S.C. — Plastic bag maker and recycler Hilex Poly Co. LLC has purchased part of the North American Flexible Packaging division of Clondalkin Group Holdings Ltd.
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