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Plastic Bag Ban – Brownsville, TX
Dec 23, 2009 0
Plastic Bag Ban – Nothern Territory, Australia
Oct 23, 2009 0
One Reason the Giant Garbage Island in the Pacific Sucks
If you haven’t ever seen pictures of dead baby birds with tons of plastic in their stomachs, click through here. These photographs, by Chris Jordan (Running the Numbers), were taken 2K miles from the nearest continent, but close enough to the giant fucking pile of plastic shit that swirls out by Hawaii. Oh and by the way, there’s another one off of Japan, too. One problem with a giant fucking pile of plastic shit twice the size of Texas and more than 30 feet deep is adult birds fly over it looking for food. When they see a tasty looking bottle cap, they scoop it up and feed it to their babies. Then the pictures linked to above happen. Take a look.
Oct 8, 2009 0
Plastic Bag Ban – Kauai, Hawaii
Oct 4, 2009 0
Plastic Bag Ban – San Jose, CA
Jul 27, 2009 0
Big Pile of Plastic Shit in the Pacific
This garbage patch is the reason I track all the plastic bag bans around the world. Via Twitter.
May 25, 2009 0
Plastic Bags Ban – Outer Banks, NC
May 19, 2009 0
Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong
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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.
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