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Platic Bag Ban – Calabas, California

aaron cohen — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:51:19 +0000

"The bill -- which mirrors the Los Angeles County bill -- goes into effect July 1." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Los Angeles Plastic Bag Ban – Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated) Plastic Bag Ban – Fairfax, CA ### Possibly related posts:

Small Charges Lead To Big Results

aaron cohen — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:44:16 +0000

"When it goes from zero to even a very small charge, it can feel very bad," said Dan Ariely, an economics professor at Duke University. "It creates a very small financial burden but a very big emotional reaction."

That quote from an interesting article in The New Republic that talks about the success of the Washington, DC plastic bag tax. On 1/1, stores began charging shoppers a tax of a nickle per plastic bag and bag use has gone down 50%. The article then makes the connection to a carbon tax and how even a tiny fee is better than no fee because of reason Ariely states above.

The article also mentions a failed $0.20 bag tax in Seattle that potentially reached too high. Nickle bag tax for everyone!

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Plastic Bag Ban Fail – Manhattan Beach, CA

aaron cohen — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:17:56 +0000

"In a victory for the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a group of manufacturers, distributors and suppliers, Div. Five held that the California Environmental Quality Act required an environmental impact report given evidence increased paper bag use might significantly affect the environment." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban FAIL – Big Island, Hawaii Plastic Bag Ban [...] ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Brownsville, TX

aaron cohen — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:49:49 +0000

"Brownsville officials are hoping a unanimously passed ban on plastic grocery bags will make the city the first in Texas to rid the landscape of the so-called “urban tumbleweeds.”" ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – New Delhi, India Plastic Bag Ban – Mexico City Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Nothern Territory, Australia

aaron cohen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:33:15 +0000

"Legislation will be passed next year banning the supply by retailers to customers of all lightweight single-use bags." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – South Australia Plastic Bag Ban – Sigatoka Town, Fiji Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland ### Possibly related posts:

One Reason the Giant Garbage Island in the Pacific Sucks

aaron cohen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:40:43 +0000

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.

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Plastic Bag Ban – Kauai, Hawaii

aaron cohen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:28:57 +0000

" The Kauai County Council voted 4-2 yesterday to ban plastic carryout bags." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – The Big Island, Hawaii Plastic Bag Ban FAIL – Big Island, Hawaii Plastic Bag Ban – Marine Corps Base Hawaii ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – San Jose, CA

aaron cohen — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:06:43 +0000

"By a vote of 9-1, San Jose City Council members asked city staff to draw up an ordinance Tuesday that would ban single-use plastic and paper carry-out bags from the city’s retail establishments by Jan. 1, 2011." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Maui Plastic Bag Ban – Mexico City Plastic Bag Ban – New [...] ### Possibly related posts:

Big Pile of Plastic Shit in the Pacific

aaron cohen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:23:14 +0000

This garbage patch is the reason I track all the plastic bag bans around the world. Via Twitter.

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Plastic Bags Ban – Outer Banks, NC

aaron cohen — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:45:53 +0000

"The flimsy bags have turned into post-purchase tumbleweeds polluting the landscape of the Outer Banks, which relies on its landscape to attract tourists." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Brownsville, TX Plastic Bag Ban – Fairfax, CA Plastic Bag Ban – Greensboro, NC’s Deep Roots Market ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong

aaron cohen — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:45:05 +0000

"Yau said a recent opinion poll showed that over 90% of Hong Kong residents agreed with reducing the use of plastic bags and 80% said they would actively support the environmental levy scheme to handle the abuse of plastic bags." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – New Delhi, India Plastic Bag Ban – Kadıköy, Turkey [...] ### Possibly related posts:

List of Places That Have Banned Plastic Bags

aaron cohen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:06:50 +0000

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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Plastic Bag Ban – Marikina, The Philippines

aaron cohen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:03:08 +0000

"Instead of plastics, marketgoers are encouraged to use bayong or biodegradable bags." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong Plastic Bag Ban – Kadıköy, Turkey ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Berkeley Farmers’ Market

aaron cohen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:00:14 +0000

"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."

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Plastic Bag Ban – Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated)

aaron cohen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:08:43 +0000

The ban applies only to 2 stores in unincorporated Marshall County, and not to any stores in the 13 cities of Marshall County. ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Palo Alto, CA Plastic Bag Ban – Kauai, Hawaii Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland ### Possibly related posts:

What 365 Bags Look Like When You Wear Them

aaron cohen — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:08:13 +0000

Via Universal Hub here's what it looks like when you wear 365 bags. ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bags Ban – Outer Banks, NC Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags – New York Times List of Places That Have Banned Plastic Bags ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Mexico City

aaron cohen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:45:59 +0000

"In a press statement Tuesday, the city legislature cited estimates that the average city resident uses 288 plastic bags per year." . ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – San Jose, CA Plastic Bag Ban – New Delhi, India Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Sigatoka Town, Fiji

aaron cohen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:59:59 +0000

"Mr Tuidraki added that some retailers in Sigatoka were already providing alternatives to customers, phasing out the use of plastic bags". ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Nothern Territory, Australia Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Palo Alto, CA

aaron cohen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:06:05 +0000

"Environmentalists are unhappy that the ban only applies to four supermarkets in Palo Alto and not pharmacies or convenience stores." ###Possibly related posts:Plastic Bag Ban – Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated) Plastic Bag Ban – Los Angeles Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland ### Possibly related posts:

Plastic Bag Ban – Fort McMurray, Edmonton

aaron cohen — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:11:32 +0000

"I think it’s something that could potentially be a tipping point for other cities, like Calgary or Vancouver, who can now point to Fort McMurray and say, ‘Well, they’re doing it up there, so maybe we should really go ahead in this direction as well.’"

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