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Much of the $2 million collected from Fairfax County's bag tax has gone to fund a program that pays the homeless to help clean up neighborhoods.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.
Rather than a ban, plastics industry groups had urged the state to include bags within California's new extended producer responsibility system for packaging.
Recycling Plastics Australia will build a mechanical recycling plant able to handle 14,000 metric tons per year of film and other soft plastics with the help of an A$20 million investment from the government.
A new industry coalition has formed in California to push back on legislation to ban plastic bags.
Plastics industry groups want California lawmakers to drop a revised plastic bag ban, and instead let a 2022 law setting up extended producer responsibility for packaging in the state start to work.
Grocery store chain Aldi has always been known as a place where you need to bring your own bags, but you could always buy a heavier weight plastic bag if needed. Now those plastic bags are gone.
A study prepared for the plastic bag industry says New Jersey's 2022 bag ban law has led consumers to switch to reusable bags, but has also increased greenhouse gas emissions and become profitable for retailers.
U.S. senators looked at the role bioplastics and reusable packaging, among other choices, could play in finding materials with the minimum environmental impact.
The Swedish government will end a 25-cent tax per bag on Nov. 1, 2024, citing statistics showing consumers already are ahead of EU targets.
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