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One Coastal Carolina University (CCU) student urged Myrtle Beach to ban single-use plastic bags during a meeting Tuesday. CCU ...
New single-use plastic ban takes effect in England — here’s why its impact may be limited "People in the UK will no longer be able to buy single-use plastic plates, bowls and trays . . ." ...
England banned single-use plastic straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in 2020. Sponsor Message This new ban applies specifically to plastic packaging of food and drinks from ...
A 2020 study by University of Michigan Professor Shelie Miller displayed how alternatives to single-use plastic items are dependent on high re-use rates. Those rates are often not achieved.
While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...
California was the first state to enact a single-use plastic bag ban, all the way back in 2014. The law faced considerable headwinds, including a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort from plastic ...
Per the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the ban on single-use plastic bags enacted in Washington D.C. in 2010 resulted in a 75% decrease in the number of bags found in trash traps in the Anacostia River.
The nonprofit is advocating for a full ban on single-use plastic bags given at point-of-sale and polystyrene foam to-go boxes, with an additional 10-cent fee on the use of replacement paper bags.
California is known for its ban-first-ask-questions-later approach to problems, and in 2014 it was the first state to pass a comprehensive ban on single-use plastic bags. Whoops, plastic in the ...
The Lagos State Government has cleared the air on the ban on single-use plastics from July 1st, 2025, clarifying it will not include PET bottles, water sachets, or nylon bags thicker than 40 ...