Plastic Bag Bans
Posted by davidwfox on 28 Jan 2008 at 09:27 pm | Tagged as: legislation, news
Oakland is set to follow San Francisco’s ban on plastic bags at retail stores grossing more than $1m. But surprise, surprise (not!) the plastic bag industry is cranky, filing suit over the measure. Countless plastic bags end up in our ocean, harming marine wildlife. Even China, a country that reportedly uses 3 billion plastic shopping bags a day is moving to ban ‘em. I say - BYOB - Bring Your Own Bag, whenever you can.
Hey, what’s with all the pink plastic bags in Chinatown? Every Oriental-looking person carries one, and they’re always pink. I wonder if China bans the bags, will we see the pink bags disappear from Chinatowns throughout the U.S.?
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