Grocery bags
California's attorney general on Nov. 2 told seven plastic bag makers to prove their products are recyclable in the state or face potentially millions of dollars in fines.
Some shoppers who forget their bags are simply taking home the basket from New Jersey shops.
The number of states with plastic bag bans is going up, from two at the start of the year to at least five and likely seven, following a flurry of activity in state legislatures.
Licaplast Industries Emballages Inc., a flexible packaging firm in Quebec, has new owners.
Eurokey collects and sorts waste plastic material from Tesco stores, and the material is then shipped to Germany, where it is turned into recycled carrier bags by recycler Papier Mettler.
The groups asked environmental ministers to implement a range of actions, including banning single-use high density polyethylene carry bags and not automatically excluding low density PE carry bags from any ban.
The city of Dallas is the latest to join the growing list of municipalities enacting a fee or tax on plastic bags.
Voters in Durango, Colo., have repealed an ordinance to put a 10-cent fee on plastic bags.
The European Commission has announced its proposal for reducing the use of lightweight plastic carrier bags in the Europe Union, which gives EU member states the freedom to choose the measures they find most appropriate, including charges, national reduction targets or a ban under certain conditions.
Voters in Issaquah, Wash., will have an opportunity to repeal the city's plastic bag ban in early 2014.
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