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List of Places That Have Banned Plastic Bags

It's Earth Day today and what better way to celebrate than to celebrate places that are making giant leaps forward in their care of the environment. Since August, I've been documenting areas, cities, countries, and in some cases, stores that have banned plastic bags. In that time, there have been 25 notable bans and one unfortunate reversal of a ban.

Hopefully by next Earth Day, there will be too many places to document, and maybe the year after that, it will be unnecessary to document because bans will be so commonplace.

The places that have banned bags are, in no particular order: Mexico City, Sigatoka Town, Fiji, Palo Alto, CA, Fort McMurray, Edmonton, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kirkintilloch, Scotland, Greensboro, NC’s Deep Roots Market, Malibu, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Toronto, Canada, South Australia, Fairfax, CA, New Delhi, India, Unlikely Words » Plastic Bag Ban - The Big Island, Hawaii, Big Island, Hawaii, Red Sea, Egypt, Buenos Aires Province, Market of Choice, Westport, CT, Macedonia, Maui, Hawaii, Los Angeles, CA, Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated), Berkeley Farmers’ Market, and Marikina, The Philippines.

Plastic Bag Ban – Marikina, The Philippines

"Instead of plastics, marketgoers are encouraged to use bayong or biodegradable bags."

Plastic Bag Ban – Berkeley Farmers’ Market

"Ben Feldman, program manager of the Berkeley Farmers’ Market, said that the move was in step with the markets’ zero-waste campaign which aims to reduce and recycle plastic materials and to recycle and compost all waste products generated at the markets."

Plastic Bag Ban – Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated)

The ban applies only to 2 stores in unincorporated Marshall County, and not to any stores in the 13 cities of Marshall County.

You Can Give a Dog a Fish

...and he'll eat for a day, or you can teach him to fish and he'll eat sharks for a lifetime! You guys know how I feel about sharks, but watching a dog jump into the ocean and drag a shark onto the beach is pretty neat, even if you don't hate sharks.



(Via Twitter)

David Simon on Bill Moyers Journal

Here's Part I, but Part II is there, too. (Via)

Antipodes Map

This is a cool toy... contrary to what cartoons taught me, if you dig a hole through the Earth in the continental United States you don't come out in China.

Why Did Lehman Brothers Have Uranium?

For investing, apparently. And now they're trying to sell it, but the market has collapsed. It's fine, I'm sure we can trust the folks that nuked the financial system to handle this. "'We plan on gradually selling this material over the next two years,' he said. 'We are not dumping this on the market and have no fire-sale mentality.'"

I Know 4/20 Was Yesterday, But…

...This video is really funny and you ought to watch it. It takes persistence, and this guy has persistence.

Demetri Martin Starring in Moneyball Also?

"Demetri Martin will play will play Paul DePodesta, a computer-wielding Harvard-educated hotshot who became Beane's right-hand. DePodesta went on to a much-maligned tenure as general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and has most recently been working in the Padres organization."

I don't know what I expected, but between The Moneyball movie and The Blind Side movie, and what's sure to be a Liar's Poker movie, there's going to be a lot of weird casting going one.

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