New York Plastic Bag Ban To Take Effect Starting March 1

New York Plastic Bag Ban To Take Effect Starting March 1

New York’s plastic bag ban takes effect on Sunday, and stores across the borough are frantically preparing, educating customers on the new protocol, buying paper bags in bulk and even creating incentive programs to encourage shoppers to bring their own containers. Starting March 1, all New Yorkers will have to bring their own reusable bags to the grocery store or...
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Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act Introduced

Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act Introduced

The world is in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis, and the current U.S. waste management system is not dealing with it effectively. Only eight percent of plastic waste in the U.S. is actually recycled. The rest is incinerated, landfilled or shipped overseas to countries even less equipped to process it, where it risks joining the eight million metric tons of plastic that...
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