Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags Series of photographes created by photographing plastic bags Plastic bags are a public nuisance.
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Reusable bags > Plastic bags Plastic bags are one of the most ingrained products in American daily life.
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"We fought plastic bags, and for now, plastic bags won," City Council members Brad Lander and Margaret Chin said in a joint statement, adding that plastic bags are slow to biodegrade and are stubborn pollutants.
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As ridiculous as it might sound, fashion has a new obsession with plastic bags — designer plastic bags, to be exact.
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Both paper and plastic bags cause problems: Plastic bags can take 1,000 years to degrade, but paper production emits more carbon.
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Chicago banned thin plastic bags in 262, but it allowed stores to use thicker plastic bags that could ostensibly be reused.
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Maybe plastic bags will one day be the novelty, as rare and inaccessible as Céline's $590 plastic bags, designed by Phoebe Philo.
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In 2002, Ireland imposed a tax on plastic bags, which was followed by a 94 percent decrease in the use of plastic bags.
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In Morocco, where plastic bags were banned in 2015, a UN-affiliated regional partnership is working to help the country transition from plastic bags.
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In 2014, California became the first state to ban plastic bags, and 16 other states since have imposed bans or taxes on plastic bags.
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"An excise duty on plastic bags is useless," Sadiman said, adding that the levy would boost producers' costs while not cutting consumption of plastic bags.
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Some states impose a tax on shoppers who require plastic bags with their purchases, and Walmart (in Canada) and IKEA charge for plastic bags, regardless.
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The city of San Jose, California, found that plastic bags made up 12% of litter in the city's creek before it banned plastic bags in 2012.
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They founded, instead, an organization called Bye Bye Plastic Bags, an NGO driven by young people determined to get the population of Bali to say no to plastic bags.
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Across Kenya, shoppers remain addicted to plastic bags, which are dished out at supermarkets with provisions such as fruit and vegetables, cosmetics and toiletries - already wrapped in other plastic bags.
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"I helped rewrite that to make it be a ban on thin plastic bags, and a charge for paper bags and the thicker plastic bags that qualify as reusable," she said.
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People who smuggle plastic bags into the country may be fined or face prison time, while executives of businesses that produce plastic bags may spend up to a year in jail.
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She has crocheted a large rug out of plastic bags.
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These places are full of broken glass and plastic bags.
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Plastic bags start as crude oil or another petrochemical derivative.
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He was wrapped in large black plastic bags and cloth.
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Plastic bags are among the few items they cannot recycle.
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South Africa does not have a law banning plastic bags.
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Oh good, humans are now genetically engineered in plastic bags.
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Four detainees are wearing street clothes and gripping plastic bags.
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Use the plastic bags you see on the private road.
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For the leftovers in their cartons, in tied plastic bags.
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The goal is to eliminate plastic bags completely by 2025.
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People are already starting to move away from plastic bags.
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James, traumatized, began to vomit, eventually filling both plastic bags.
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Water has been handed out, often in small plastic bags.
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Plastic bags should be reused and recycled instead, they argue.
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Plastic bags stuffed with belongings cover the dining room table.
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"Do you want to ban all plastic bags?" she said.
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Neither will plastic bags purchased in bulk, like garbage bags.
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Yet I use plastic bags to pick up their waste.
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Is the use of plastic bags limited where you live?
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Even wealthy economies have moved gingerly to ban plastic bags.
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New York residents use 210 billion plastic bags each year.
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Only 4% of recycling facilities will take your plastic bags.
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A whale was found with plastic bags in its stomach.
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Environmental experts say plastic bags can take centuries to degrade.
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Burned pieces of plastic bags cover much of the ground.
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In the United States, states like New York, California, Oregon, and Hawaii have implemented bans on plastic bags, while dozens of countries around the world have instated similar prohibitions or taxes on plastic bags.
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While bans on plastic bags and fines seem to be working in some areas, in others single-use plastic bags and items are still widely used -- often because of a lack of alternatives, Mahesh said.
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In 2015, Britain introduced a charge of 5 pence on all single-use plastic bags provided by large shops, which led to an 83 percent reduction in UK plastic bags used in the first year.
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"We like to keep our plastic bags in our cubby cabinet and when we need to carry something, we reuse them," he said as he pulled several used plastic bags out of his hand cart.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: After I learned about the terrible ways that plastic bags can affect the environment, I began to carry three sturdy, reusable plastic bags for shopping in my backpack everywhere I went.
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But one thing is not of use, he says: plastic bags.
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The recalled Wylwood brand is packaged in 16-ounce plastic bags.
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Vegetables were in plastic bags; cookies were stored in plastic containers.
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Sea turtles that eat plastic bags thinking they're food can choke.
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They confiscated the offending machines and put them in plastic bags.
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WILLIAMS: Because they want to discourage your use of plastic bags.
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Boston has joined other cities in banning single-use plastic bags.
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Apple will switch from plastic bags to paper bags beginning Apr.
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In one jar are plastic bags, in the other are jellyfish.
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Whenever possible, say no to straws, plastic cutlery, and plastic bags.
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Kenya is a major exporter of plastic bags to the region.
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In 2018, Kroger reportedly ordered 6 billion plastic bags a year.
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Part of the initiative included charging for plastic bags at stores.
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Scully took care of the ribs, filling plastic bags with them.
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And if plastic bags were reused repeatedly, they looked even better.
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Essentially, the plastic bags you get at grocery stores and bodegas.
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You can also use disposable plastic bags to carry your clothing.
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The move follows Tasmania's ban on thin plastic bags in 2013.
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Most of the nation hasn't banned plastic bags, and likely won't.
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To help, plastic bags, straws, and styrofoam cups have been banned.
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Another speaker pointed accusingly to plastic bags hanging in nearby trees.
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More remains were found in a refrigerator, wrapped in plastic bags.
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They carried with them two plastic bags filled with her remains.
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"I'm here to talk about banning plastic bags," she said. Aha!
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A motorcycle delivers plastic bags of their food to the building.
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Once you open the package, you're greeted by small plastic bags.
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Kroger said it would eliminate plastic bags at stores by 2025.
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Shoppers are asking Target to toss out plastic bags for good.
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As would plastic bags used by restaurants for leftovers or takeout.
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In October 2015, Britain introduced a charge of 5 pence on all single-use plastic bags provided by large shops, which led to an 83 percent reduction in UK plastic bags used in the first year.
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Campaigns such as "Bye Bye Plastic Bags," led by two charismatic teenage girls from the island, have raised awareness of plastic pollution and compelled the government to take action -- recently committing to ban plastic bags by 2018.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Grocery chain Sobeys Inc, owned by Empire Co, will eliminate all plastic bags from its stores within six months, becoming the first Canadian grocer to end use of plastic bags, the company said on Wednesday.
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The originals he wrapped in plastic bags and stashed in a farmhouse.
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Like the repeated bans in New Delhi on using thin plastic bags.
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So, that means no more plastic bags, straws, cutlery or stirring sticks.
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It now only offers paper bags, and it sells reusable plastic bags.
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He said the retailer aims to phase out plastic bags by 2020.
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So, was my decision to ditch plastic bags bad for the environment?
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Plants with plastic bags over their heads crossed their leaves in surrender.
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Too many men, clothes, plastic bags, and barely any beds or space.
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The officers found body parts in several plastic bags in the freezer.
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Every year the world uses up to 5 trillion disposable plastic bags.
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Camels starve with their bellies clogged full of plastic bags they've eaten.
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During heavy rainfall, the gutters also spill over with floating plastic bags.
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Oklahoma Legislature approves ban on taxing plastic bags, the Associated Press reports.
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Whole Foods and IKEA announced they were ditching plastic bags in 2008.
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The statement banning the use of plastic bags was published on Somalimemo.
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Many countries have banned, limited or taxed the use of plastic bags.
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"Paper bags are a lot heavier than plastic bags," Mr. Lander said.
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If you take our vacuum cleaner: We got rid of plastic bags.
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We used plastic bags and peed in plain sight of one another.
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She stands at the window and looks, the plastic bags inflating, deflating.
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Andrew Cuomo signed legislation last March that bans single-use plastic bags.
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We are countering the mistaken belief that plastic bags can't be recycled.
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He slipped Rosa a handful of empty 50-gallon, clear plastic bags.
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Globally, countries including Israel and Ireland also have fees on plastic bags.
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A profusion of plastic bags chokes canals and ever-expanding trash heaps.
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New Yorkers throw away an estimated 9.3 billion plastic bags each year.
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"For office life, plastic bags are necessary," said Chinapa, 13, whose shopping habits illustrate the challenges facing anti-plastic campaigners in Thailand, where plastic bags are handed out in abundance on any visit to a shop or market.
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In 2005 and 2007, it prohibited plastic bags with a thickness of 30 microns, and in 13, it also banned 60-micron plastic bags, to include all those considered light enough to be blown away by the wind.
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TORONTO, July 31 (Reuters) - Grocery chain Sobeys Inc, owned by Empire Co, will eliminate all plastic bags from its stores within six months, becoming the first Canadian grocer to end use of plastic bags, the company said on Wednesday.
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We were there with our spikes stabbing the rubbish into black plastic bags.
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Andrew Cuomo introduced a bill to ban plastic bags across New York State.
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On July 20th Panama became the latest to ban single-use plastic bags.
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The UN says that last year 270 countries had restrictions on plastic bags.
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"If you have 80 plastic bags in your stomach, you die," he said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo introduced a bill to ban plastic bags statewide by 221.
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For now, despite the ban, plastic bags still lurk in the region's markets.
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It's been proven on small samples of plastic bags, bottles, and food packaging.
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California and New York have also implemented a statewide ban on plastic bags.
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Sea turtles that eat plastic bags thinking it's food can choke on them.
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Unused plastic bags have also been turned into play marbles by the girls.
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Countries as varied as Bangladesh, France and Rwanda have duly banned plastic bags.
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This is even true of the various virtue-signalling alternatives to plastic bags.
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Large plastic bags filled with radioactive topsoil and detritus dot the abandoned fields.
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It mandated that retailers charge consumers for reusable plastic bags or paper bags.
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And Antigua and Barbuda is hoping to phase out plastic bags by July.
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The animal burst from eating too many plastic bags in a garbage dump.
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Inside they found wet money, and a lot of jewelry in plastic bags.
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But the kits leave behind piles of boxes, plastic bags and cold packs.
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The majority of plastic bags end up in landfills or littering the environment.
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Heads bow over plastic bags fogged with steam, cradled in blue gingham paper.
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Those stores are currently prohibited from providing customers with plastic bags for free.
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Kenya imposed one of the world's toughest bans on plastic bags in 2017.
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Throughout the evening, people continuously drop in and leave plastic bags of donations.
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This week, they added a new item to the prohibited list: plastic bags.
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The space was covered with garbage, plastic bags and used body soap containers.
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It's also why plastic bags, toys, and diapers will likely linger for centuries.
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Already, New York and California have passed bans on single-use plastic bags.
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Some cities have tried to cut back on plastic by banning plastic bags.
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New York would be the second state, after California, to ban plastic bags.
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Plastic bags end up in the bellies of sea creatures again and again.
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New York City alone collects 1,700 tons of used plastic bags every week.
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Some countries have taken stern action to curtail the use of plastic bags.
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The wool is collected, classified for quality and stored in large plastic bags.
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Banning straws and plastic bags doesn't even put a finger in the dyke.
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A gray-haired couple arrived with plastic bags entwined decoratively into their braids.
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Certain plastic bags are banned in Uganda and in the city of Mumbai.
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In Rwanda, plastic bags are illegal, and visitors are searched at the airport.
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France banned ultralightweight plastic bags in 2015, and Italy did so in 2016.
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And there is a need for some single-use plastic bags out there!
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She and her roommate threw everything they had in plastic bags and fled.
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Hawaii has local laws in place that prohibit plastic bags throughout the state.
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A petition for Target to nix plastic bags has gained traction on Change.
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The company may soon begin phasing out all plastic bags in its stores.
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The extinction of plastic bags is coming, so you may as well prepare.
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Numerous cities and counties around the country have bans or fees on plastic bags.
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If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces, it will be finished.
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I ended up discovering that plastic bags worked well for stuffing some the monsters.
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Hanging above it, plastic bags brimming with fake fruit and flowers suggest manufactured abundance.
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Often it includes plastic bags, paper, aluminium foil, electrical cables and even cigarette butts.
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He said that businesses should do more to stop customers from taking plastic bags.
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When I approach, motorcycles fall over, canned meat cracks, and plastic bags fly away.
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Shoppers carried stacks of money in plastic bags as prices changed several times daily.
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Some ride bikes crammed with empty plastic bags and fixed with small electric engines.
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Plastic bags, plastic packaging...and or course, the most common of all: plastic bottles.
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She also fills her black plastic bags with feminine products, rice, diapers and milk.
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Investigators found the ricin in a container that was double wrapped with plastic bags.
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The production of canvas totes generates 131 times as many emissions of plastic bags.
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"I sell plastic bags because it's my only source of income," Mwagangi tells CNN.
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Bees making nests out of plastic bags sounds like an ecologically dystopian movie plot.
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The cleaning, the feeding, the nappies, the creams, wipes, bibs, and small plastic bags.
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During an autopsy, veterinarians found more than 80 plastic bags in the whale's stomach.
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He hands out plastic bags full of canned foods — yellow corn, peas, green beans.
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Indonesia has a plan to also impose excise taxes on plastic bags this year.
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Some carry plastic bags with snacks, plastic water bottles, an extra scrap of clothing.
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He held a bracelet, woven in a flower pattern from colorful plastic bags. Soon,
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Green soda bottles, plastic bags and rat carcasses float atop the brown, sludgy water.
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The concrete fortress wall, with shredded plastic bags caught in rivulets of barbed wire.
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One of the policies he will propose is a statewide ban on plastic bags.
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Dusty, swarming with Styrofoam coffee cups and cigarette butts, plastic bags and trampled napkins.
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She had tied plastic bags over her shoes and the legs of her scrubs.
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In the late 294s, single-use plastic bags were seldom available in grocery stores.
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Plastic bags, she said, are so prevalent in Chinatown that they were almost iconic.
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Washington's 5-cent fee on paper and plastic bags went into effect in 2010.
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Plastic bags are most commonly used, but Mason jars also work in some situations.
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When this is done, they dry the products and quarantine even the plastic bags.
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In the meantime, they may hand out up to two plastic bags per client.
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From plastic bags to natural hair, here are the new laws coming this year.
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The group touts studies that show plastic bags are more environmentally sustainable than paper.
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I also prepare snacks in plastic bags and start mentally preparing for work tonight.
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I asked him what percentage of plastic bags are recycled in New York City.
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In less than three weeks, the state's ban on single-use plastic bags starts.
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Some hid thousands of euros in vacuum-sealed plastic bags tucked in their fireplaces.
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What we're reading: This article in The Texas Tribune about plastic bags killing livestock.
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The plastic bags are the last ones you want, unless you're worried about price.
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Part of that includes delivering its syrup in stainless steel tanks versus plastic bags.
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Others carried small plastic bags full of rocks to leave beside graves, a tradition.
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What we're reading: This article in The Texas Tribune about plastic bags killing livestock.
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No. Plastic bags used for things like fresh meat or produce would be exempt.
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The biodegradable cups are reusable, and drinking straws and plastic bags will be eliminated.
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The scorching wind blows dust and plastic bags between the rows of sand-encrusted tents.
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In August, the company announced it was eliminating plastic bags from its stores by 2025.
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" Further graphic comments describe the plan to "take plastic bags and cut it into pieces.
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"I heard they banned plastic bags via social media," Ali told The New York Times.
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Similar ideas underpin taxes on plastic bags to combat the growing problem of ocean pollution.
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Like Amazon's plastic bags, air pillows contain plastic film, which means it's harder to recycle.
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My friend Shaina realized she relied on plastic bags to contain her sweaty gym clothes.
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Aside from plastic bags, the bulk of marine plastic pollution comes from plastic beverage bottles.
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Both of their severed heads were discovered in plastic bags, according to the Houston Chronicle.
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"IF YOU have plastic bags, please leave them on the plane," the cabin crew warn.
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What about Matt, with his supposed possession of cocaine, and the scale and plastic bags?
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"I start pretty neat using utensils and plastic bags to put on icing," she says.
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Others hanged themselves, jumped from windows, overdosed on pills or suffocated themselves with plastic bags.
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Several nations have since acted to ban, partly ban or tax single-use plastic bags.
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In part they have been helped by Kenya's move last year to ban plastic bags.
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Joule doesn't provide any plastic bags, so I fell back on some quart-size Ziplocs.
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Nyabuto says it will be effective this time because plastic bags have been banned completely.
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"We spoke about plastic bags and now we're onto plastic bottles," Coderre told the CBC.
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Unfortunately, on Friday, the animal spat up five plastic bags and then died shortly after.
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Over 80 plastic bags were found in the whale's stomach along with other plastic pieces.
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They're just as convenient and affordable, and they all look much cooler than plastic bags.
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He had polished and organized his tools, tucking them away in towels and plastic bags.
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Coming from a state where plastic bags are banned, I'm used to carrying reusable bags.
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This year's class is working to eliminate plastic bags, feed the homeless and much more.
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The U.K. has already banned microbeads and placed fees on the use of plastic bags.
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In rural areas, salesmen pass through villages selling medicines, including antibiotics, out of plastic bags.
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Some German sailors put their water bottles in plastic bags to keep out the seawater.
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Panama has become the first Central American country to officially ban single-use plastic bags.
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A total of 16 cities have already instituted local laws banning single-use plastic bags.
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Water, often in small plastic bags, was handed it out to anyone who needed it.
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The team found the wax worms broke down polyethylene plastic bags faster than other methods.
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"I heard they banned plastic bags via social media," Mr. Ali said in an interview.
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Hospital administrators have told nurses to store disposable masks in paper bags and plastic bags.
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There were shots of plastic bags, containing clothing and limbs, weighed down by metal pipes.
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In Ireland, my home country, plastic bags were once an essential part of daily life.
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They see their relatives sprayed with chlorine and wrapped in plastic bags, buried without ceremony.
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The monks scooped teaspoons of sand into plastic bags, handing one to each of us.
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When you restock your closet, store edible clothing items in sealable plastic bags or bins.
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Also, and this is a personal pet peeve, don't use plastic bags in your luggage.
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You've probably heard that New York State is banning single-use plastic bags next year.
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And more than 40 countries have introduced measures to reduce the use of plastic bags.
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Helicopters are common sights, as are used sandbags and plastic bags signaling dry gas pumps.
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Machines rip apart plastic bags and organic waste is filtered into a massive metal vat.
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Other proposals would ban plastic straws that can be used only once, or plastic bags.
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Veteran readers of this magazine may recall that I have written about plastic bags before.
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Shortly afterward, the use of plastic bags in Ireland fell by ninety-four per cent.
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"But you must remember that the vast majority of plastic bags are reused," he said.
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Under the new law, grocery stores will be fined if they give out plastic bags.
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Mexico City also rang in the New Year with a new ban on plastic bags.
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Flying is looked down upon in Sweden as much as plastic bags are in California.
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The government of New Zealand unveiled plans to phase out single-use plastic bags Friday.
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He'd come with a cart bulging with plastic bags, which was parked in the aisle.
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She joins climate strikes every Friday and is pushing for a ban on plastic bags.
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If you make plastic bags, you're obligated to print suffocation warnings to keep kids safe.
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The duo from Bali founded the Bye Bye Plastic Bags campaign, and aren't stopping there.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are petitioning Target to drop plastic bags from its stores.
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The result: vehicles clogging narrow roads, and much more pollution, particularly sewage and plastic bags.
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And plastic bags used to deliver newspapers — yes, that still happens — would also be exempt.
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Behind the workers, racks full of deformed cakes labeled imperfect slumped in clear plastic bags.
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Under the new law, grocery stores will be fined if they give out plastic bags.
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New York banned plastic bags earlier this year, and Seattle banned plastic straws in 2018.
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"The purpose of the government ban (on) the use of plastic bags is to avoid health and environmental effects resulting from the use of plastic bags," the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), a state agency that enforces environmental policies and laws, said in a statement.
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From plastic bags to straws, single-use plastic products have worn out their welcome in Canada.
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The officers found what appeared to be body parts in several plastic bags in the freezer.
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The state of California banned plastic bags in 2016 and this past April, New York's Gov.
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These are a great way to encourage your friends to get rid of their plastic bags.
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That meeting concluded with a memorandum of understanding between the governor and Bye Bye Plastic Bags.
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Seven states have laws on the books that limit the use of single-use plastic bags.
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Her body was found four days later on Monday, partially-nude and covered with plastic bags.
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Still, it's questionable if some drop-off locations will accept bubble-lined plastic bags, Pinsky says.
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He began removing plastic bags full of clothing — women's clothing — hanging them in a closet nearby.
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They do it in plastic bags and fling them through the air in narrow slum alleyways.
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A tax on plastic bags, introduced in 2015, may double under plans currently out for consultation.
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A few go-to cards go into wallets but Mayerowitz uses plastic bags for the rest.
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A small chunk is predicted to come from a newly imposed excise tax on plastic bags.
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Olympians training in Rio's Guanabara Bay report downright nasty conditions: Trash, wood, plastic bags, raw sewage.
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The arms and legs had been cut off; they were later found in plastic bags nearby.
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Hawaii has a de facto ban on plastic bags; all of its counties have instituted bans.
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Heil said he is more concerned with plastic bags and other debris that could snag boats.
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The agreement envisages replacing an overall 180 million plastic bags over three years, the source added.
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Most are carrying empty suitcases or a handful of plastic bags as they cross into Colombia.
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This isn't the first time the country has tried to tackle the issue of plastic bags.
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The birches were covered in plastic bags filled with a radioactive form of carbon dioxide gas.
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Plastic bags nestled in a heap at their feet, neat little parcels tied with fastidious knots.
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The paintings were wrapped in plastic bags and buried under shrubbery near the border with Moldova.
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Aegean Rebreath divers plucked blue, black and yellow plastic bags tangled between reefs, swaying among fish.
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Workers' wrists were tied with plastic bands and they deposited personal belongings in clear plastic bags.
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For the recall in Australia, Samsung repaired the machines by fitting plastic bags over some connectors.
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They were sold in plastic bags under Great Lakes and North Bay Produce Pure Michigan brands.
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Several of them had tied plastic bags around their sneakers to protect them from paint splatters.
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There have since been hats, gas masks, and even thongs made from the blue plastic bags.
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City lawmakers in Denver are reportedly considering enforcing a ban on products such as plastic bags.
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Created by the breakdown of plastic bags and other refuse in our oceans, microplastics saturate seawater.
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Buy a trash can and plastic bags to line it with (or re-use grocery bags).
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Congo bans plastic bags, in theory, but there is little to suggest the ban is enforced.
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Children here are taught in schools not to use plastic bags and to cherish the environment.
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Italy's ban on plastic bags for fruit, vegetables and baked goods, which took effect on Jan.
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But dozens of the containers held used adult diapers, household garbage, plastic bags and other waste.
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In 2008, then-Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for a 6-cent fee on plastic bags.
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At night, feces-filled plastic bags are tossed from rooftops by those afraid to venture outdoors.
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If only they'd thought of that a few decades and a few billion plastic bags ago!
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More than 40 countries, including China, France and Rwanda, have taxed, limited or banned plastic bags.
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In Rwanda, it is illegal to import, produce, use or sell plastic bags and packaging equipment.
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You can also find low-cost plastic bags, parchment paper, and tinfoil at a dollar store.
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According to a DEC estimate, New York state residents use 23 billion plastic bags every year.
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They tend to be little more than glorified plastic bags — and they look like them, too.
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A statewide prohibition on most types of single-use plastic bags will take effect in March.
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Starting next March, the state will ban most stores from giving customers single-use plastic bags.
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Flotsam and jetsam, especially plastic bags and one-use containers, cover the shoreline of the Australian island.
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The Thai arm of Britain's biggest retailer Tesco Plc offers rewards to customers who eschew plastic bags.
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ACCORDING TO THE United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), up to 5trn plastic bags are consumed each year.
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There they discover the ruins of a church scattered with photographs in plastic bags covered with dirt.
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During their autopsy, rescuers pulled more than 80 plastic bags from his stomach, weighing about 17 pounds.
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Last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio renewed calls to ban plastic bags in the city, and Gov.
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He then threw her belongings into four plastic bags, according to court documents, and went to sleep.
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Besides, do you really want to live in a country where milk comes in plastic bags, Americans?
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These are in turn further altered to make everyday objects including plastic bags, car parts and clothing.
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The prohibited single-use items potentially included plastic bags, cups, plates, small bottles, straws and certain sachets.
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Idaho, Arizona, and Missouri have also enacted similarly alliterative and troubling bans on bills banning plastic bags.
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A tax placed on plastic bags in Ireland in 2002 cut their use by more than 90%.
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Hawaii was the first state in the US to ban plastic bags in all counties in 2015.
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"Often when you sleep, the others come and burn your feet with (flaming) plastic bags," he said.
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He allegedly wrapped the body in plastic bags and placed it in a suitcase, the court heard.
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Knibbs said the NPP powder, which looks like brown sugar, was in plastic bags inside the barrels.
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Stragglers will trickle out, green and white plastic bags in hand, talking about their future eBay listings.
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In 2014, California passed legislation to curb the use of single-use plastic bags at grocery stores.
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Her partially-buried body was found in a wooded area near her resort, covered in plastic bags.
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Public awareness of the environmental damage from making regular plastic bags is limited outside of major cities.
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Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year, which requires 12 million barrels of oil to produce.
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Plastic bags are destroying our rivers, our oceans and this fugly tree outside my living room window.
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California as a whole, along with several towns, passed some environmentalist initiatives, including taxes on plastic bags.
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Numerous other municipalities and counties around the country have either bans or fees on disposable plastic bags.
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The shoes come well-packaged in the box, wrapped in plastic bags and packed with tissue paper.
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Jatuporn Buruspat, head of the department, said the whale probably thought the floating plastic bags were food.
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That explains why there aren't many flimsy straws or plastic bags in the garbage patch, he said.
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The clothing retailer has been implementing programs to eliminate plastic bags from its stores across the globe.
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America's largest supermarket chain will ban the use of plastic bags at its grocery stores by 2025.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) is asking state lawmakers to ban single-use plastic bags at stores and restaurants.
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There are flasks and tubes and plastic bags vacuum-packed with weird substances in pink and orange.
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Many Australian customers were unhappy with Samsung's repair job, which involved fitting plastic bags over some connectors.
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Plastic bags have been found in the guts of dead sea turtles, which mistake them for jellyfish.
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Dozens of municipalities have banned plastic bags or imposed fees to discourage their use, including Austin, Tex.
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In December, Boston's mayor, Martin Walsh, signed an ordinance banning single-use plastic bags in city stores.
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"I always carry extra plastic bags and never throw them away or waste any," said Ms. Smith.
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Unfortunately, there's not a simple answer on whether paper or plastic bags are better for the environment.
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When divers eventually recovered her head and limbs in plastic bags, however, no such injury was found.
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Retail stores will no longer be able to give out most types of single-use plastic bags.
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A Muslim couple clothed in rags and clutching plastic bags is brought before the Inquisition and executed.
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In plastic bags, she assembled care packages of bananas, oranges and pretzels for friends on the course.
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The loudest sound in the universe is someone packing their belongings into plastic bags at 5 a.m.
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Some of the plastic the researchers found was easily identifiable: toothbrushes, food packaging, straws and plastic bags.
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Measures like banning plastic bags and straws, long pushed by environmental groups, are gaining traction more widely.
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At one corner, plastic bags, Snapple bottles and potato chip bags were stacked precariously atop one another.
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New York's new ban on plastic bags is, on its face, an effort to reduce consumer waste.
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In Washington, D.C., a 5-cent fee on both paper and plastic bags caused a 50% reduction.
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I don't want to think about the number of plastic bags that I use in a week.
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As for plastic bags, handed out everywhere despite our best efforts to avoid them, we lost count.
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Plastic bags and containers break apart into smaller pieces, known as microplastic, which fish and seabirds ingest.
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By some estimates, the world uses and throws away more than a trillion plastic bags a year.
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The state became the first in the US to ban plastic bags in all counties in 2015.
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As the storm was approaching, lots of gas stations had those telltale plastic bags over the pump.
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These are big changes for anyone who is accustomed to using plastic bags when they go shopping.
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Other cities and states have moved to tax, limit or ban the use of plastic bags altogether.
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IN THE LOBBY of a Beirut bank, three customers stuff wads of $100 bills into plastic bags.
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In an effort to tackle plastic pollution, New Zealand is committed to banning plastic bags for good.
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Major retailers in all but two Australian states face fines if they supply single-use plastic bags.
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The industry is currently also fighting a ban on plastic bags in supermarkets by some city governments.
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In the U.K, for example, a levy on single use plastic bags has had a significant impact.
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Hundreds of thousands of shoppers have called on Target to ditch plastic bags, once and for all.
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Mokaya Nyarenchi, who hawks peeled pineapple in plastic bags in Nakuru's central business district, is also worried.
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The pieces to be assembled, like the gold Serpenti scales, arrive rather unceremoniously gathered in plastic bags.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he will push to eliminate single-use plastic bags in the state.
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Additionally, paper bags are heavier than plastic bags, and transporting them involves greater use of fossil fuels.
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In this midcareer retrospective, anything means old carpets, plastic bags, bottles, zippers, bed springs, keys and furniture.
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Some objects are graced with nametags and descriptions, such as two plastic bags of old testosterone tubes.
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Acting under a 2015 European Union directive addressing the global disaster caused by plastic bags, which take hundreds of years to degrade, Italian lawmakers enacted a measure banning the use of plastic bags for fruit, vegetables and baked goods in favor of eco-friendly biodegradable and compostable alternatives.
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Women said they've had to buy small plastic bags of water for drinking when they can afford it.
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Like cigarettes, plastic bags have recently gone from a tolerated nuisance to a widely despised and discouraged vice.
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It doesn't take a close reading of Katy Perry lyrics to know that plastic bags get little love.
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So since San Francisco banned plastic bags in 2007, over 100 US cities also enacted bans or fees.
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Snee also had almost $3,000 in cash as well as empty plastic bags in her car, police claim.
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New York just signed off on a budget bill that includes a ban on single-use plastic bags.
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New York is only the second state to ban plastic bags, following California, which banned them in 2016.
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And the acacia trees that pepper the scrubland beyond bloom pink with plastic bags snared in their thorns.
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Hawaii was the first state in the United States to ban plastic bags in all counties in 2015.
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In Africa, the concern is that discarded plastic bags also pool water that can breed disease-causing mosquitoes.
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If suicide is a concern, restrict access to lethal means, including weapons, medications, chemicals, cords and plastic bags.
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Yet the increased appreciation of the ecological damage caused by using plastic bags was also a big factor.
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It follows a country-wide ban on plastic bags which went into effect in July of this year.
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Now her family confirms that Stefaniak's lifeless body was located behind her rental, partially covered in plastic bags.
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The Environmental Protection Agency reports that US residents use more than 380 billion plastic bags and wraps yearly.
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Many are beaten, suffocated with plastic bags, kicked, strangled and electrocuted, according to Human Rights Watch, a charity.
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Why it matters: Plastic bags, bottles and other wastes are causing widespread harm to marine and coastal ecosystems.
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More than half told pollsters for Eurobarometer in 22015 that they try to forgo plastic bags when shopping.
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They split into groups, squeezing into desks designed for children, arraying purses and plastic bags around their feet.
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On Tuesday, a half mile away in the same park, investigators found plastic bags with other body parts.
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In 2017, police found nearly 20 aborted fetuses dumped in plastic bags in the western state of Maharashtra.
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Denpasar, the capital of the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, is due to ban plastic bags in 2019.
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She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean syringes to Russians dashing into and out of the store.
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The family of four are currently living in two tiny rooms covered in cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
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I often carried extra plastic bags with me in my backpack in case I encountered a big stash.
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Very. The team found the wax worms broke down polyethylene plastic bags faster than other recently-tested methods.
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They had 200 pounds of the confetti from the cannons, packaged up in cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
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In a huge embarrassment for humankind, scientists found a bee nest made out of plastic bags in Argentina.
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It was a gruesome sight: Body parts were being thrown into huge plastic bags that stood on end.
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After an hour came the heart of the evening's agenda: a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags.
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The bodies were discovered close to midnight on Sunday, wrapped in plastic bags and secured with plastic tape.
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The measure mimics the tax on single-use plastic bags already in effect across California and other states.
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Every ton of asphalt contains approximately 20,000 single-use plastic bottles or around 70,000 single-use plastic bags.
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In one series, my groceries are being packed into plastic bags, as I'd forgotten to bring cloth ones.
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Melati and Isabel Wijsen, Bye Bye Plastic Bags Isabel and Melati Wijsen don't take the Earth for granted.
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The move is set to prevent 150 million small plastic bags from being used each year, Morrisons said.
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They also were sold unbranded in clear plastic bags, white paper tote bags, and individually from retail displays.
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The body parts, which included a foot, were wrapped inside plastic bags, Seattle police said in a statement.
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Roll'eat Boc'N'Roll Reusable Sandwich Wrapper - £2100 See Details Plastic bags can take up to 22.79 years to decompose.
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The list of things that scared her included plastic bags, toys, me, the TV. What had I done?
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Plastic bags may smell like a tasty treat because of the bacteria and algae that accumulate on them.
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The article mentions that some people like plastic bags because they reuse them at home for various purposes.
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And somewhere among them, often tucked in the women's undergarments, Mr. Mberabagabo said, were hundreds of plastic bags.
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In informal settlements in places like Kenya, plastic bags are sometimes used as "flying toilets" containing human waste.
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New York is now the second state to impose such a rule; California banned plastic bags in 2016.
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Hawaii effectively has a statewide ban since all counties in the state bar the use of plastic bags.
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That same British analysis also looked into reusable options, like heavier, more durable plastic bags or cotton bags.
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I was astounded with how many plastic bags I'd wind up with over the course of a day.
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As of Sunday, most businesses in the state can no longer offer single-use plastic bags to consumers.
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Manufacturers and importers of plastic bags now face fines of $19,000 to $38,000 or four-year-jail terms.
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Inside the hotel room, police reportedly saw three small clear plastic bags that appeared to contain crystal meth.
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Giant jars of it are kept in the cold case, with fistfuls prepackaged in plastic bags for takeout.
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But many cities in states that allow it have moved to limit, ban or charge for plastic bags.
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Snapshot: Above, a New York State ban on single-use plastic bags went into effect over the weekend.
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Others wandered around in full protective clothing or with improvised safety measures, like plastic bags on their heads.
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Aging stadiums are usually demolished after their expiration date; like plastic bags, they can be tedious to recycle.
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When Christopher tore the box open, the pieces spilled out in tidy plastic bags—the set was complete.
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The fact that stuck with me came from Googling how long it takes for plastic bags to decompose.
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Dear Heloise: I do Internet shopping and find a lot of merchandise is shipped in sturdy plastic bags.
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I use it to wet the tips of my fingers, and the plastic bags will open right up.
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The nation's largest grocery chain will phase out the use of plastic bags in its stores by 2025.
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"It's ridiculous to keep putting plastic bags into our landfills," Mr. de Blasio said in the radio session.
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Gang members were ordered to scoop the ashes into plastic bags and throw the bags into a river.
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Walmart's move comes as retailers and governments seek to move away from single-use plastic bags and items.
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Bag ban: New Yorkers say they want to save the environment (but they also love their plastic bags).
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Here's what else you need to know about New York's budget: Plastic bags from stores will be banned.
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Recently, a whale off the Norwegian coast was found with more than 30 plastic bags in its stomach.
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As of 2017, 28 countries had imposed bans or taxes on plastic bags, with varying levels of enforcement.
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Just remember that plastic bags can be dangerous for pets, as bags have the potential to suffocate and strangulate.
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All of the deceased wore black track suits with matching Nike sneakers and had plastic bags over their heads.
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Refusing plastic bags at the grocery store simply won't cut it when it comes to real, lasting environmental impact.
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Ploggers take plastic bags along with them so they can store the collected litter they find along their route.
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Three doors and its hatchback popped open, and a handful of young people ran over with white plastic bags.
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Seattle-based QFC will be the company's first retail division to phase out single-use plastic bags by 2019.
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More than 380 billion plastic bags are used in the U.S. every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Both sides agreed to work together to get Bali residents not to use plastic bags and minimize plastic pollution.
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Since their invention in the 1960s, disposable plastic bags have made lives easier for lazy shoppers the world over.
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Investigators found human remains at two properties as well as in plastic bags in the couple's home, Gomez said.
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It said it was mulling a tax, curbs on throwaway items such as plastic bags and new quality standards.
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And last June, a pilot whale died in Thailand shortly after spitting up five plastic bags, according to CNBC.
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"I opened the tub and I could see what appeared to be plastic bags," he said, according to KSPR.
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I sell bags of water, those see-through plastic bags, you see that are sold all over the neighborhoods.
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At least 26 small plastic bags of cocaine were found in his apartment, documents shared by the court showed.
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Mostly, however, they found drugs: counterfeit Viagra, vials of steroids and small plastic bags full of unidentified white powders.
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Visible plastic pollution is an old complaint, too (years ago, plastic bags caught in trees were nicknamed "witches' knickers").
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The plastic bags sat atop a simple table adorned with a "country" plaid tablecloth printed with illustrations of fruit.
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If Apple stores still have plastic bags in stock, they will use those before switching to the paper bags.
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If you disagree, you're probably suffocating in one of said emotional plastic bags yourself, and willfully ignorant (or weak).
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To cut pollution, Indonesia also sought a levy on plastic bags but parliament delayed the move, following industry complaints.
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Small-and-medium-sized businesses are estimated to supply more than three billion plastic bags each year, it said.
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Some Australian customers are losing their damn minds after finding single-use plastic bags banned from many major supermarkets.
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Kenya joins more than a dozen African countries that have either banned or proposed the prohibition of plastic bags.
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Each of the men carried two small plastic bags wrapped in newspaper and an umbrella with a sharpened tip.
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Clutching plastic bags with their meagre belongings, families wait to be interviewed by officials and ponder their next move.
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UNNI Certified 100% Compostable Bags, 50-Count, $15.95Ditch the plastic bags in favor of these 100% compostable alternatives. They
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The city assembly of Anchorage, Alaska, approved a ban on single-use plastic bags, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
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Walmart continues to use plastic bags in its checkout lines, while big competitors like Kroger are phasing them out.
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Taxes on single-use plastic bags are supposed to make our environment cleaner and oceans safer for sea life.
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In the clip, Panera employees take sealed plastic bags of mac and cheese and place them in hot water.
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Plastic bags, six-pack rings and the like are strangling marine life and poisoning the global supply of seafood.
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Ban supporters say the billions of plastic bags used by Californians are a menace, clogging sewers and polluting habitats.
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Just like the "sin tax" on alcohol, cigarettes, and plastic bags, meat would be taxed for its negative externalities.
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"He added: "We don't really find any plastic bags or straws, but we find really thick, hard plastic fragments.
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We're witnessing the decline of plastic bags, plastic straws, foam cups; the rise of reusable water bottles and totes.
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Companies will also be given incentives to create alternatives for other plastic products such as cups and plastic bags.
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Lyden pulled Everidge over and discovered that the truck was "packed" with clear plastic bags filled with aluminum cans.
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Plastic pollution, in particular, comes from non-recycled packages and bottles, microbeads in cosmetics and soaps, and plastic bags.
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He walked for over five years with the 132 pound structure made from plastic bags, bed sheets, and bamboo.
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Per the NCSL, every one of Hawaii's most populous counties prohibits non-biodegradable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts.
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Ms. Bach said she had seen people show up after previous wildfires with plastic bags stuffed with crumpled receipts.
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An Australian supermarket chain last year reversed its decision to ban single-use plastic bags because of customer complaints.
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As plastic bags have polluted sidewalks, landfills and waterways, bans on the bags have become a hotly debated issue.
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More than 40 countries around the world have introduced measures to restrict or reduce the use of plastic bags.
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His new book is, accordingly, a series of short meditations on everyday things like plastic bags, frogs and war.
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While they aren't as easy to use as plastic bags, their reduced carbon footprint make them a worthy alternative.
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In 202050, plastic bags clogging waterways were blamed for flooding that killed at least 150 people in Accra, Ghana.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on Oct.
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"We took out one suitcase, started digging, and saw some of the textiles in plastic bags," Arun Dhaddha recalled.
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We tore into the plastic bags of sockeye salmon with stone shards, then descaled the skin with dull bones.
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Cigarettes turned her lungs from a spongelike texture to billowing plastic bags that collapsed on themselves when she exhaled.
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Aldi is known for not offering plastic bags, so Singleton wanted to keep the party mostly bag-free, too.
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While the majority of retailers won't be able to provide plastic bags come March 1, there are few exemptions.
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Plastic bags are out It's always a good idea to bring reusable bags with you to the grocery store.
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And Seaholm pointed to a 2959 Canadian study showing that 2000 percent of plastic bags have a second life.
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Smith said the governor's office, Senate and Assembly couldn't agree on phase-out timelines for paper and plastic bags.
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There also was disagreement over whether thicker plastic bags should be considered reusable and not subject to the ban.
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China's use of plastic bags, containers and cutlery has become one of its most stubborn and ugliest environmental blights.
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The next day, they scooped the ashes into plastic bags and threw them into the nearby San Juan River.
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Everything from ranch flavored-chips to baby carrots is pulled from plastic bags and small coolers and passed around.
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Jennie Romer moved from California to New York about four years ago to save the city from plastic bags.
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The fear would be 'You banned plastic bags, now you might ban all the other kinds of film packaging.
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Hernández, the environment official, said people should get out of the habit of putting their garbage in plastic bags.
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"If other retailers like IKEA and Costco can do without plastic bags, I'm convinced Target can too," she added.
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Plastic bags are ordered by the bundle and then often discarded after customers use them to take leftovers home.
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While South Korea last year banned single-use plastic bags from supermarkets, Greenpeace's Kim says more must be done.
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The move is set to prevent 150 million small plastic bags from being used each year, according to Morrisons.
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They flutter in tree branches and sit balled up under kitchen sinks — plastic bags abound in New York City.
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Himalayan group bans plastic bags and promotes organic farming India's Himalayan glaciers are thawing rapidly due to rising temperatures.
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Well, it also had transparent green plastic bags with no labels and what the seller said was corn flour.
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So, end your personal use of plastic straws, plastic bags, bottles, cups and disposable utensils, the Cornell lab recommends.
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Hernández, the environment official, said people should get out of the habit of putting their garbage in plastic bags.
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Plastic bag ban: New York State will prohibit many single-use plastic bags from retail sales by next March.
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Seven men had just trooped onto the sheltered beach carrying golf clubs and two plastic bags of white balls.
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These are used to make squeezable bottles, plastic bags, pouches, meat trays, some clamshells and disposable plates and cups.
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Jessica sits down on the floor and starts to unpack them from their plastic bags, removing the tissue paper.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "City's Fee on Plastic Bags Faces Scrutiny in Albany" (news article, June 8): Instead of penalizing people for using plastic bags, why don't our lawmakers do what some enlightened communities do and require stores to issue a small credit for each reusable shopping bag provided by the shopper?
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A Japanese research agency documented plastic bags and soda cans in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on the planet.
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The front doors could fly open at speed, so sometimes had to be tied to the chassis with plastic bags.
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But I've come to praise plastic bags, not to bury them (or recycle them, the more environmentally responsible thing, FYI).
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Luly and her other child, Yaman, 10, emptied plastic bags and used them to bail water from the sinking raft.
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She added that plastic bags were "necessary for responsible and hygienic bagging of waste" in Singapore's hot and humid climate.
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So after going after plastic bags, greenies now want to ban plastic drinking straws because they may threaten sea life.
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There, Jones has hung a selection of Dunahoo's long, curtain-like patchworks made up of countless, cast-off plastic bags.
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Their belongings, taken from them at the U.S. border, were piled in back, mostly black duffels and red plastic bags.
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How do you explain dead whales washing up on beaches around the world, their stomachs jam-packed with plastic bags?
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An intimate portrait of her bedroom and her belongings, all wrapped in plastic bags, allows for a variety of interpretations.
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During Fashion Month, we saw spring 2018 collections from Céline, Burberry, and Balenciaga all feature plastic bags on the runway.
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Click here to view original GIFThis week, Michigan became the fourth state to place a ban on banning plastic bags.
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Still, in all these life cycles assessment studies, plastic bags do seem to be "more green" than cotton tote bags.
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Packaging, which includes everything from plastic bags to bubble wrap, accounts for 44% of plastic production, according to industry estimates.
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So, in 2014, the state passed a statewide ban on plastic bags, allowing a 10-cent charge on paper bags.
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In 4 small plastic bags, add 1/4 of the toasted tortilla strips and 1 tbsp of toasted pumpkin seeds.
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Globally, up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme.
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When Boyan Slat was 230, he went diving in Greece, and was shocked to see more plastic bags than fish.
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As of June 6, the market has redesigned its plastic bags, printing them instead with embarrassing logos on both sides.
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Self-driving cars should really be able to tell living things from inanimate objects like plastic bags and cardboard boxes.
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"The gold was wrapped in plastic bags inserted in to his rectum," Jayarathne said, adding that there were four bags.
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Some who braved the weather taped plastic bags to their sneakers and wore trash bags in lieu of waterproof jackets.
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When I came down, I saw a used mattress, a pram, and six huge plastic bags filled with kids' toys.
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Nearby, men try, unsuccessfully, to light fires using anything dry - from plastic bags to old, worn-out clothes and nappies.
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Kicking off July 1, the states of Queensland and Western Australia banned single-use, lightweight plastic bags from major retailers.
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Only 1 percent of plastic bags are returned for recycling (to be honest, I didn't even know that was possible).
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Starting on August 28 it will become illegal to use, manufacture and import plastic bags for commercial and household packaging.
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Four years later, they tried again by banning plastic bags less than 60 microns, which were considered more recycle- friendly.
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The plastics industry has contributed $6 million in an effort to overturn a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.
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All his belongings are packed in a suitcase and two plastic bags if he needs to leave in a hurry.
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Two she has worked with in Karachi are a pest-control company and Al-Karam Packaages, which makes plastic bags.
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Tim Peters, an American missionary who has lived for years in South Korea, uses small plastic bags full of seeds.
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Ghost nets entangling turtles, plastic bags defiling corals, and straws in the guts of fish existed in a different world.
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But banning straws—or plastic bags, or take-out containers—is not enough to solve the scourge of ocean plastics.
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Victor Vescovo, an American businessman, found plastic bags and candy wrappers at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
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The new bags are more robust, as well as more effective, than the plastic bags she used earlier, Hussein said.
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At least 150 California communities have taken steps to limit plastic bags since 2007, when San Francisco kicked things off.
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That little green notice explained how Australian retailers are now charging for plastic bags as part of an environmental initiative.
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The city of Denver said earlier this month it is considering enforcing a ban on products such as plastic bags.
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New York state lawmakers have agreed to a ban on single-use plastic bags, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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A father, holding a small child, pushed a wobbly stroller piled with plastic bags of clothing over a rocky path.
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Tomas suggested I pack everything inside in plastic bags, just in case — an idea that turned out to be brilliant.
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However, the new rules will bar single-use plastic bags, except to hold wet produce such as fish and meat.
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The New York City Council is set to vote today on a fee for single-use paper and plastic bags.
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She sells cooking spices and onions, separated into small plastic bags she carries in a bowl balanced on her head.
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The news station notes that the topic of banning plastic bags came up during a Policy Committee meeting last week.
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My aunts in Florida stuffed everything in plastic bags, saturating thighs with salt, shaking the hell out of every limb.
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Among that sea of high-tech gear, you'll also see plastic bags of ice strapped to shoulders, knees, and ankles.
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Don't squish them too close together, and if you put them in plastic bags, make sure there are air holes.
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In the next 60 seconds, people around the world will purchase one million plastic bottles and two million plastic bags.
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Connecticut In 22509, Connecticut enacted legislation to ban single-use plastic bags at retail checkouts starting on July 22020, 22019.
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When you buy something in a store, do you rely on the store's plastic bags to get your items home?
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Do you think plastic bags tell us something about the time and place in which they are or were used?
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Another key measure of the energy transition bill will kick in next month when France bans plastic bags from supermarkets.
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But bans on plastic straws and fees for plastic bags only nibble at a gargantuan, growing torrent of stubborn garbage.
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Suffolk County on Long Island approved a 5-cent fee on paper and plastic bags that took effect last January.
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In a park in the city's center, families who fled the latest war zones sit with plastic bags and babies.
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While I try to use bags that are biodegradable, the effectiveness of biodegradable plastic bags has been called into question.
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Residents currently use an average of 1,184 plastic bags per person, per year, compared to a global average of 307.
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Single-use plastic bags are now banned in all states and territories in Australia except Victoria and New South Wales.
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Photographer Tony Cenicola gives us one last look at plastic bags before we say good riddance to these pollutants forever.
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The company will, among other things, replace plastic bags with paper bags and bubble wrap with shredded material from cartons.
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A surge in sales of thicker reusable plastic bags in British supermarkets is worsening their "plastic footprint," a report says.
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Vets found plastic bags, used coffee and noodle packets, rubber gloves, handkerchiefs, underwear and a plastic rope in its stomach.
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Nor are giveaway plastic bags really "free," she noted, because consumers pay for them in the price of their purchases.
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"We recently proved to Sims that if they can collect the plastic bags Novolex machines can recycle them," Rozenski said.
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It had 64 pounds of trash — plastic bags, ropes, netting and even a plastic drum — clogging its intestines and stomach.
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Even in places where there aren't any bans on plastic bags, some retailers encourage shoppers to use their own bags.
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In January, Taiwan announced the strictest regulation yet: a blanket ban forbidding all single-use plastic bags, straws and cups.
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Mr. Suleyman had half a lemon handy, which he used to wet his fingers to more easily open plastic bags.
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You don't need fancy equipment: a large flathead screwdriver, a hammer, a two-gallon bucket, a shovel and plastic bags.
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While it may not be the most sustainable option, you can reuse the same plastic bags for a long time.
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I think she didn't know whether to laugh or launch into a discussion of why plastic bags are so bad.
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Researchers found 80 plastic bags in the stomach of a dead pilot whale that washed ashore in Thailand, he said.
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Some also fail to securely tie the trash or use flimsy plastic bags that break open, contributing to street litter.
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Many of the captives carried their possessions in plastic bags and met tearful family members as they got off buses.
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Biologists in Florida euthanized a baby rough-toothed dolphin with two plastic bags and a shredded balloon in its stomach.
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Sealed plastic bins, it said, would attract fewer rodents to food waste than plastic bags set out on the street.
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Some retailers in Canada have become creative to try and discourage consumers from using plastic bags, including by shaming them.
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And Kenya in 2017 put forward a full ban on plastic bags — with severe punishments for those who violated it.
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As the San Francisco Chronicle noted, while it has reduced disposable plastic bag usage in the state by as much as 80 percent, plastic bags are still commonplace in grocery stores and other marketplaces as part of a provision of the law that allows for thicker plastic bags, which are sold for 10 cents.
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They played with tennis balls or, if these could not be located, sticks and plastic bags wrapped up to make balls.
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"It's more than turtles eating plastic bags and dying, it's more than plastic occurring in most of our seafood," Chapman says.
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To save money, buy snacks in bulk and make your own portion-controlled snacks at home using small plastic bags. 6.
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The options must be considered carefully: banning plastic bags can backfire, and materials like cotton can cause their own environmental problems.
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Workers hand out crates filled with bottles of water and plastic bags with essential items such as food, blankets and clothing.
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The best solution is preventing them from coming home with you, such as by securing luggage in plastic bags while traveling.
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Over the past few months, Maryland has banned foam food containers and New York state has done away with plastic bags.
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LONDON - MARCH 03: Plastic bags of rubbish discarded on a walkway near Regent's Canal on February 29, 2008 in London, England.
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Fuhrer allegedly told police he started covering Kraus-Breslin's body with plastic bags as the smell of her decomposing corpse intensified.
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It appears as if it might have been whipped up out of discarded plastic bags and helium, like some homemade zeppelin.
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Smaller items, like hand lotion, are required to be placed in clear plastic bags so they are always visible to managers.
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The problem isn't plastic straws or plastic spoons or plastic bags; it's our wasteful consumer lifestyle that prizes single-use laziness.
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"We can survive without plastic bags," she said, noting that even many political opposition leaders were on board with the campaign.
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More than 40 other countries have banned, partly banned or taxed single use plastic bags, including China, France, Rwanda, and Italy.
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According to court documents, they found a small amount of cocaine, a digital scale and plastic bags coated with white powder.
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Supermarkets have vowed to use less plastic packaging and a tax on plastic bags in Britain has led to safer alternatives.
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Several cities in the US, like Austin, Los Angeles, and Seattle, banned single-use plastic bags to address the litter problem.
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They included cutting the use of plastic bags and bottles in government agencies and businesses, and plastic bans in tourist destinations.
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Many people have certain traits of behavior -- they don't try to use plastic bags, they don't try to drive too much.
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Yet, counterintuitively, plastic bags have the lightest per-use impact on the Earth of the various bags the UKEA's study examined.
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Sun Basket, despite its earnest attempts to improve its environmental footprint, still has to ship perishable food products in plastic bags.
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Some travelers wore the team's colors and carried over-stuffed plastic bags filled with provisions to last the 24-hour trip.
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In the refugee camps, some of them would bundle up plastic bags to make a soccer ball so they could play.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - On her lunch break, Bangkok office worker Chinapa Payakha emerges from a 22015-Eleven store with two plastic bags.
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And then you&aposve got -- and then, you know, not only does it hang in the trees, all these plastic bags.
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Behind Taj's back, plastic bags and garbage pile up by the river as smoke billows from a chimney in the distance.
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If the bill were to pass, New York would join California, which approved a statewide ban of plastic bags in 2016.
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She introduces Lemonis to "Jellyfish" - a brand of bags and baskets handwoven from recycled plastic bags, made by Syrian refugee women.
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"A red Ford EcoSport truck was found, with black plastic bags on the roof, which contained six human limbs," Alvarez said.
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America's consumer-driven culture inevitably leads to a lot of plastic bags and containers, wasted food, discarded clothes, and Uber rides.
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We are saying goodbye to plastics Plastic-free supermarkets, a deposit on plastic bottles and jail time for using plastic bags.
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Supermarket chain Kroger announced this year it intends to ban the use of plastic bags at its grocery stores by 2025.
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In contrast to plastic bags, the researchers found the amount of plastic fishing debris - including nets, floats, buoys - caught has risen.
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It consists of a fan with plastic bags of air — filled by visitors with the fan's help — piled around its base.
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Nowadays every Tesco and 7-11 sells brightly-coloured plastic bags designed specifically to keep your smartphone safe and photo-ready.
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The city has tried repeatedly over the past decade to ban the use of thin plastic bags, but they remain ubiquitous.
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The drawings in plastic bags, canvases hung like shiny banners, and golden frames covering the walls become souvenirs of digital ephemera.
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Items are currently being bagged in special "Drive Up" plastic bags, which are slightly larger and sturdier than Target's regular bags.
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The Al-Qaeda-aligned terrorist group in East Africa, Shabab, has recently prohibited plastic bags, according to the New York Times.
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She's delivering 14 pastry boxes this weekend (she plans to leave them on porches in sealed plastic bags to avoid germs).
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The executives of companies that keep or make illegal plastic bags can be imprisoned for up to a year, officials say.
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The average American throws away about 260 single-use plastic bags per week, but New Yorkers use twice the national average.
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Sometimes, in desperation, a patient will bring me plastic bags bulging with prescription drugs and ask me to sort them out.
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A fruit vendor on the Upper East Side, who supports the ban, said plastic bags should have been banned years ago.
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American shoppers use more than 100 billion lightweight polyethylene plastic bags each year, and only a small portion are ever recycled.
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The state also acted to ban plastic bags, an unsightly scourge in many locales, though paper bags were left less regulated.
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Even the Vancouver store that was trying to shame its customers into shunning plastic bags uses copious amounts of plastic packaging.
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We are also investing in the future with the first green taxes in the region, and the prohibition of plastic bags.
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After England imposed a 5-pence charge on plastic bags in 2015, use dropped 85 percent in the first nine months.
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Just offshore, reefs of plastic bags float on the waves like icebergs jutting above the water and hiding even more beneath.
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Laws like this that restrict the uninhibited consumption of plastic bags encourage individuals to use alternatives like reusable bags, Hoover says.
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Many disturbing accounts exist of whales, dolphins, sea turtles and other sea creatures dying after ingesting plastic bags and other debris.
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No one likes the sight of plastic bags snagged in storm drains, drifting from tree branches, or tangled around sea turtles.
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A problem Romer faces is that laws in some states prohibit local governments from banning or putting fees on plastic bags.
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As recently as a decade ago, High Times was sealed in plastic bags (as if it were Hustler) at Barnes & Noble.
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You carry metal straws for your ethically-brewed iced coffee and silently judge anyone who puts their groceries in plastic bags.
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Stores can give out single-use plastic bags for certain items, including uncooked meat, sliced or prepared food and prescription drugs.
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The three had been shot with a stun gun, bound and suffocated with plastic bags over their heads secured with tape.
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Older groups have historically pursued their own projects, such as land conservation, protecting endangered species, or trying to ban plastic bags.
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Divers coined the term for the area near Andros island after they pulled thousands of plastic bags from the sea there.
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The Jammu and Kashmir region, where Ladakh is located, has moved faster: in January this year it banned plastic bags outright.
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Half of India's states and union territories have introduced a ban on plastic bags, yet many shoppers remain wedded to them.
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The man filming, Imamu Baraka, finds her belongings in plastic bags at the bus stop and encourages her to sit down.
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According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, the national environmental agency, that includes more than 34 million plastic bags each day.
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Washington, D.C., has for years charged 5 cents for plastic bags, and earlier this year banned plastic straws and drink stirrers.
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Ultraviolet light and the force of the waves degrade fishnets, plastic bags, bottles, caps and toothbrushes into smaller and smaller pieces.
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This kind of approach leads people to bring, you know, a tote bag with them and stop using the plastic bags.
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What I know is that one moment I was holding my passport and the next Marcos had it in his fist and was trotting away at a hasty clip, cutting a path through vendors hawking water and empanadas, separating huddled clumps of dredded backpackers from families consolidating their burdens by stuffing plastic bags into bigger plastic bags.
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At least 127 countries have instituted some sort of new regulation on plastic bags so far, according to the U.N. Even one al Qaeda–linked group in East Africa, al-Shabaab, has banned the use of plastic bags, declaring them "a serious threat to the well-being of humans and animals alike," according to the New York Times.
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Belongings in plastic bags hang on nails hammered into the wall of a pedestrian arch under a bridge that spans the Tiber.
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On April 23, a baby female rough-toothed dolphin had a piece of a balloon and two plastic bags in its stomach.
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Use of plastic bags fell by 85%, though ecologists worry some consumers have switched to substitutes that are environmentally even more damaging.
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She further pleaded guilty to failing to report thousands of Australian dollars she brought into the United States in separate plastic bags.
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Similar "food in the nude" campaigns are taking place at grocers in New Zealand, which banned single-use plastic bags in July.
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In Europe, plastic drink bottles are the most prevalent form of plastic found in waterways, now that plastic bags have been tackled.
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The stores hit in the blast are littered with body parts, slowly being collected in plastic bags and bed sheets by volunteers.
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But bans and penalties on plastic bags in rich countries may be better for the conscience than for the environment (see article).
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The hardest things to identify are rarely seen items such as debris on the road or plastic bags blowing across a highway.
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I decided to give up plastic bags because I wanted to do something about the scourge of plastic pollution in our oceans.
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Last month, New York governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a bill to nix plastic bags in New York state for that same reason.
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One study done by the Australian government in 2007 found that plastic bags also have a lower carbon footprint than paper bags.
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Japanese bureaucrats are working on a law that would require retailers to charge customers for plastic bags - something many supermarkets already do.
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Kenya's government has been proactive in the fight against plastic pollution, banning the manufacture, sale and use of plastic bags in 2017.
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Proponents say plastic bags kill wildlife, pollute oceans and cause litter, and that the campaign is being waged by plastic bag companies.
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They must put it straight in the requisite public bin, forcing them to tear open plastic bags and toss it by hand.
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Like a good friend, Abbi welcomes Ilana into her home with open arms — as long as she's covered with plastic bags first.
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In the days after he vanished, some of his dismembered body parts, stuffed into plastic bags, turned up in N.Y.C. subway tunnels.
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At An Phat, there is almost giddy excitement about its chances of acquiring big new customers, and not just for plastic bags.
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Hassan, a young man wearing a surgical mask and gloves, held up two plastic bags that he believed contained charred human flesh.
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A tax on plastic bags was also mentioned, along with a target to recycle up to 60 percent of plastic by 2021.
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The Philippines, like its regional neighbors, has not imposed a nationwide ban on plastic bags, but some local authorities regulate their use.
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"It's time," said Ms. Brockmann, 55, a midwife from Long Island who was dressed in a suit made of 500 plastic bags.
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As of July 1, major retailers in all but two Australian states will be fined if they supply single-use plastic bags.
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She was further accused of hiding $120,000 in multiple plastic bags and having friends carry them in their luggage in Aug. 2014.
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The EPA says the first step is eliminating plastic (bags, wrap, bottles, and so on) as much as possible from your routine.
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Sometimes, the farmers need to line up the plastic bags of opium they have collected, each weighing about 10 pounds, for inspection.
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Use your Baggu in place of plastic bags at the grocery store or as a tote bag to carry literally anything else.
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The guards found the paintings wrapped in dark plastic bags and buried under leaves near the border with Moldova, The A.P. said.
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An Australian state built its first road made out of recycled glass bottles and plastic bags, ABC News Australia reported this week.
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Kenyans could face fours years in jail or up to $40,000 in fines if they produce, sell or even use plastic bags.
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The men were nearly suffocated with plastic bags and had their genitals shocked with electric current before being presented as confessed kidnappers.
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The Green New Deal also bans plastic bags and mandates a 5-cent fee should you chose to use a paper one.
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A female rough-toothed dolphin calf was also reportedly found to have two plastic bags and a balloon fragment in her stomach.
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The whale spit out five plastic bags on Friday and later died, the Marine and Coastal Resources Department said on its website.
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Supermarkets that violate the ban on plastic bags could face fines of up to 85033 million won, or roughly $2,700, CNN reported.
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Later, on a walk through a field, Mr. Ashurst pointed to the detritus left by migrants — food tins in Spanish, plastic bags.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) on Sunday announced that a ban on single-use plastic bags will be included in his 2019 executive budget.
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And storing luggage in plastic bags between trips can prevent travelers with home infestations from bringing bedbugs with them to a hotel.
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Makamba said a formal announcement on the ban of single-use plastic bags in Tanzania would likely be made later this month.
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According to the Associated Press, stores will be allowed to charge at least 5 cents for recyclable paper or reusable plastic bags.
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Plastic bags, which take hundreds of years to degrade, are a major global issue, blamed for clogging oceans and killing marine life.
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More than 40 countries have banned or restricted the use of plastic bags as part of the fight to reduce plastic pollution.
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He seals fruit with sugar and water in clear plastic bags and stacks these on sheet pans in the walk-in refrigerator.
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In previous years, British authorities have forced stores to charge for plastic bags and banned the manufacturing of products containing plastic microbeads.
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There are people now who create rugs and other textiles from copious amounts of plastic bags, a pragmatic little ray of hope.
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Grocery stores in particular are filled with plastic — from plastic-wrapped vegetables to pre-sliced fruit in plastic boxes to plastic bags.
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Or the full silk skirt of a blue dress, which had an explosive petticoat of rubber gloves, plastic bags and inflated balloons.
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Plastics is the third largest manufacturing sector in the United States, employing nearly a million Americans, including those who manufacture plastic bags.
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It would block New York City's attempt to impose a nickel fee on plastic bags, as a way to reduce their use.
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Plastic bags have ended up all over the place because they're currently objects of no value that are given away for free.
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California became the first state to ban single-use plastic bags, in 26, and Oregon put in place a ban last month.
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With more localities implementing bans on plastic bags, we are researching and testing more options that are designed for products beyond groceries.
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The law leaves the door open to using plastic bags "for reasons of hygiene," presumably for items like deli meats or cheese.
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Without money for store-bought decorations, most families built makeshift Christmas trees out of sticks and shredded candy wrappers and plastic bags.
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A recent tour first seemed like any other as she directed her group past the street vendors selling goldfish in plastic bags.
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In June last year, a short-fin male pilot whale died after ingesting more than 17 pounds of plastic bags and packaging.
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And that's not just recycling, that's also simply by buying products with less packaging and refusing plastic bags at the grocery store.
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You don't have a group of ladies sitting around in their living room wringing their hands about plastic bags or about fracking.
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Why it matters: One hundred billion plastic bags are used by Americans each year, according to a study cited by state officials.
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Biologists in Florida last month euthanized a baby rough-toothed dolphin with two plastic bags and a shredded balloon in its stomach.
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According to the Canadian government, 15 billion plastic bags are used in Canada every year, along with 57 million plastic straws every day.
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They had already lifted 36 bodies sealed in white plastic bags out of the wreckage on platforms suspended from a huge blue crane.
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Kumala estimates that Avani plastic bags are around twice the price, although some products such as ponchos can be cheaper than vinyl rivals.
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In March, the group posted a picture of more than 7 lbs of plastic bags that were found inside one dead deer's stomach.
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But snack-size containers are readily available at most grocery stores and are cheaper in the long run than buying new plastic bags.
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So far, the government has not adopted any bans or charges on plastic bags or single-use plastic items like straws and plates.
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Miller is also accused of divvying $120,000 and having her friends carry the money in plastic bags in their luggage in August 2014.
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Plastic bags containing a severed head and limbs were found in the shed and bags containing a torso were found in the basement.
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An autopsy conducted on the whale revealed over 80 plastic bags and other plastic items weighing 17 pounds in the animal&aposs stomach.
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For example, after suffering a nasty fall into a snowy ditch, he realized that covering his belongings in plastic bags would be helpful.
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This consisted of recycled material from more than 200,000 plastic bags and packaging, 63,000 crushed glass bottles and toner from 4,500 printer cartridges.
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Consumers are paying more attention to their waste creation now, and local governments are banning single-use products like straws and plastic bags.
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Plastic bags from local Queens businesses are fused together to form multi-patterned polypropylene smocks, which hang on steel stands like wispy scarecrows.
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"I know [jobs] are going to come back," Harrigan said after loading her plastic bags with toothpaste, bug spray, paper towels, and apples.
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Small suitcases and plastic bags filled with treasured possessions fill in the gaps until there is no more floor space to be seen.
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Romer worked on the San Francisco law, which was the first in the nation, that initially began as a ban on plastic bags.
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"Plastic bags are a particularly problematic form of waste, and cities are the ones that pay to clean up bag litter," Romer explained.
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Recently, their group, Bye Bye Plastic Bags, had a big win by getting Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport to go plastic-bag free.
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We'd walk away with our purple plastic bags, fulfilled with a mix of cartoonish studs and one or two "fancy" sets of earrings.
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A curious thing is happening: Plastic bags, once relegated to covering your dry cleaning or transporting your groceries home, are now considered...chic?
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From mops and brooms to shopping carts and plastic bags, STOMP performers use everything they see in sight to create rhythm and sound.
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Woolworths cited "bag rage" after it stopped providing free single-use plastic bags as a factor in slowing sales at its Australian supermarkets.
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Plus, transporting 1,000 paper bags across the country with a truck consumes much more fuel than transporting 1,000 thin plastic bags, Wagner says.
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After more than three hours searching the vehicle, police recovered another 8.303,254,020 euros in cash – wrapped in plastic bags floating in the tank.
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A tax on plastic bags has also been mentioned, along with a target to recycle up to 60 percent of plastic by 2021.
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The bad news: It looks as though we'll be at war and will also be genetically engineering humans incubated in clear plastic bags.
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Plastic bags, straws, bottles, and toys clutter the world's oceans, from the depths of the Mariana Trench up to the frigid North Pole.
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The entire state of Hawaii has banned plastic bags in its grocery stores, and large markets in Los Angeles have done the same.
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California has been at the forefront of bans on single-use plastics and became the first state to ban plastic bags in 2014.
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Ahmed and Nourhan and their daughter Alin came to stay for 10 days, carrying all of their belongings in two small plastic bags.
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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE The plastic bags, coffee cups and toothbrushes we use each day don't magically disappear when we throw them away.
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Having already made a conscious effort to eschew plastic straws, plastic bags, and takeaway cups, it was time to tackle my period, too.
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And employees at the store are being told to wrap all their belongings in plastic bags to protect against the bed bug scourge.
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Andrew M. Cuomo embraced a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags on Monday, introducing a bill to outlaw them by next year.
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At 40-50 cents a bag, twice the price of regular plastic bags, it's a challenge to get supermarkets to use biodegradable ones.
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Inside, at least eight employees sat in handcuffs while cops went through the product inside, placing large quantities of bud into plastic bags.
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Whatever you think about plastic bags, they're actually leaving less of a carbon footprint than totes, at least when it comes to manufacturing.
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In order to be just as effective as plastic bags, that means you'd have to use your tote bag at least 131 times.
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My backpack was full of novelty plastic bags which were being given out for free from the Pokémon Center I had visited earlier.
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Media had earlier published pictures of workers crossing a border river from Thailand back into Myanmar carrying, bundles of belongings in plastic bags.
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We also say that plastic bags or bits of paper carried on the air fly about—isn't that a motif in American Beauty?
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French supermarkets like Carrefour and Auchan also distribute plastic bags in Senegal, but as they are thicker the law doesn't yet affect them.
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Assietou Drame, spokeswoman for Auchan Senegal, said the supermarket aimed to "completely eliminate the sale of plastic bags" and offer paper bags instead.
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The Indian state of Tamil Nadu announced Tuesday it would ban the use of plastic items, including nonbiodegradable plastic bags, starting in January.
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This week, the Thai cabinet approved a ban on plastic bags at supermarkets and department stores belonging to 43 companies, starting on Jan.
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He ran out of the house, grabbed the plastic bags from under the rock, ran to a friend's house, and called his doctor.
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Preparing dishes by heating them in plastic bags — in restaurants or central kitchens — is common at chains including Chipotle, Starbucks, and Taco Bell.
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On Friday, readers weighed in on Proposition 67, which asks whether the state should uphold a ban on disposable plastic bags at groceries.
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Garbage — rags, plastic bags, plastic foam food containers — clung to the freshly cut tree branches piled up in the river's nooks and crannies.
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Now his net often yields more trash than fish, including television sets, dead dogs and the occasional dolphin killed by ingesting plastic bags.
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Slat, who was 16 at the time, previously told Business Insider that he saw more plastic bags than fish during that diving trip.
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Simple changes, like banning single-use shopping bag, can save as many as four million plastic bags from harming the environment each year.
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Five Aum Shinrikyo members boarded subway cars on three different lines in central Tokyo during rush hour, carrying plastic bags filled with sarin.
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The country also introduced laws requiring supermarkets to donate unsold food to charity in February and banned single-use plastic bags in July.
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But those gains were swamped by rising labour and energy costs and the expense of removing single-use plastic bags from its stores.
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In Kenya, the use or production of plastic bags comes with a 4-year jail penalty or $38,000 fine, according to Global Citizen.
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Plastic bags: Bad for the environment, good for my cat, who is weirdly obsessed with sleeping atop any and all variety of bag.
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A man and a woman were waiting for him, in a room that was empty except for a chair and two plastic bags.
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In January 2014, all businesses in Hawaii County were officially prohibited from distributing single-use plastic bags, according to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
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Delaware Delaware also enacted legislation to ban single-use plastic bags in 2019, but its ban won't go into effect in January 2021.
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For paper bags, reusable plastic bags, and reusable fabric bags, retailers will be required to charge customers at least five cents, per Oregon.gov.
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Other artworks, like a giant balloon made of recycled plastic bags that fills an entire exhibition hall, address the issue of climate change.
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Police found nine bodies dumped across Guadalajara Saturday night, six of them wrapped in plastic bags, with similar messages pinned to their chests.
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The average Dane, for example, now uses just four single-use plastic bags a year, after the introduction of a fee in 1994.
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Built from recycled yogurt cups, plastic bags, nylon, and neon green LEDs, the modular lights can be stacked in any number of configurations.
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They also advised putting unwashable items into sealed plastic bags, washing their eyeglasses in warm water and cleaning their phones with baby wipes.
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So, even though plastic bags are only a small fraction of America's overall plastic trash, they've become a highly visible sign of waste.
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Mr. Hoque cleared space for the boy's crib, pushing aside his plastic bags of T-shirts and the fan that cooled the studio.
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But supporters of the campaign say that a tax may well force a shift in consumer behavior, as it did with plastic bags.
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Immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, many with children in their arms, clutched clear plastic bags filled with whatever belongings they had.
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In 2014, California became the first American state to ban plastic bags, and many American cities have acted to curb plastic-bag use.
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China is among the 127 countries that have some kind of law limiting single-use plastic bags, according to a 2018 UN report.
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Her son, Mauricio, 5, was playing quietly on the sidewalk next to the black plastic bags that held all of Ms. Popoca's belongings.
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Single-use plastic bags, including compostable bags and plastic ones less than 2.25 millimeters thick, will be banned, according to CNN affiliate KRQE.
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And with their documents in plastic bags, they were ready to swim ashore, knowing that the smuggler wanted to make a quick getaway.
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I accepted plastic bags as an inevitable natural phenomenon, as if we were farmers battling scourge-of-God locusts on the Great Plains.
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The category includes not only plastic bags, but also soiled plastic that covers microwaveable food, plastic wrap used for leftovers and Bubble Wrap.
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Snorkeling off the coast of Bali just doesn&apost ring as romantically when you have to pick plastic bags out of your hair.
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More than 85033,000 people have signed a petition calling on Target to discontinue the use of plastic bags, according to The Associated Press.
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They were inside small, sealed plastic bags that contained a chemical used to preserve biological material, Will County Sheriff Mike Kelley had said.
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According to Waste Management, only 1% of those plastic bags are returned for recycling — the rest end up in landfills or as litter.
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In an adjacent installation at the museum, Love, Hassinger has filled a room with hot-pink plastic bags, each containing a love note.
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There, he used his earnings to buy grain, saccharin, socks and plastic bags and took it back to sell in North Korean markets.
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In March, a dead whale was found in the Philippines with 88 pounds of plastic bags and other disposable products in its stomach.
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Once you open those plastic bags, you're greeted by another plastic casing that's filled with sand and trinkets, each individually wrapped in plastic.
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On Thursday, a team of four medical professionals tallied white plastic bags inside a long, rusted, white truck parked outside the medical centre.
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Authorities scanned the container and then brought in drug-sniffing dogs, which uncovered the cocaine wrapped in aluminum and stuffed into plastic bags.
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British retailer Co-op has unveiled plans to ban single use plastics and replace roughly 2021 million plastic bags with environmentally friendly equivalents.
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As he carefully put his documents back in their plastic bags, he said he was ready to show them to any judicial body.
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"Plastic bags have been waste here since the first day we started using them," said Pham Thi Lai, 60, a local seafood processor.
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Squawking hens wore peculiar outfits: white and blue plastic bags that, the family told me, prevented eagles from swooping down and carrying them away.
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In January it banned imports of plastic rubbish from other countries; it is tightening up compliance with its rules and taxes on plastic bags.
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State-by-state, Australia has been rolling out bans of plastic bags, cups, plates, and takeaway containers, and another state has made the pledge.
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According to the complaint, the family allegedly urinated in empty soda and juice bottles and disposed garbage in plastic bags kept on the floor.
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Even if you don't care about turtles, you should know that plastic bags are made from fossil fuels, which present their own environmental issues.
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Half a dozen women gather one evening with notebooks, hand drawn maps and copies of petitions in plastic bags, to discuss their next steps.
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Then she tied plastic bags over the children's heads with rope and turned on the stove's natural gas burners, McCarthy alleged, according to Patch.com.
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It is not just things like plastic bags or textiles, which a recent survey found one in two Britons incorrectly assumes to be unrecyclable.
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He wasn't concerned about the plastic bags fluttering about or the seawater's gray, oily texture or the smell of sewage carried by the breeze.
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A number of places, from San Francisco to the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, have banned or severely restricted the use of plastic bags.
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The Humane Society of the United States recommends removing all home items that aren't "cat-proof," including feathers, plastic bags, paper clips, and string.
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The deep sea is littered with all the junk we carelessly toss away, from plastic bags to old washing machines to incredibly creepy figurines.
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"Since we opened in 2017 we have opted for paper bags and the 5% plastic bags we used we have now discarded" he said.
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Many of the experts I talked to say that using reusable plastic bags — whether made of recycled plastic, nylon, or woven polypropylene — is best.
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The hardest things to identify, he says, are rarely-seen items such as debris on the road, or plastic bags blowing across a highway.
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Half a dozen women gather one evening with notebooks, hand drawn maps and copies of petitions in plastic bags, to discuss their next steps.
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Charging consumers for plastic bags has reduced their use, and introducing refundable deposits for plastic bottles has created a market for collectors in Ecuador.
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Space blankets or moving blankets can be fashioned into coats for cold days, and plastic bags can double as waterproof boots when it rains.
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Step behind the installation, though, and you realise that the hills are made of mounds of rubbish, the trees coloured with abandoned plastic bags.
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It would have come from Melati and Isabel Wijsen who have been campaigning for four years to get plastic bags banned from their island.
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We have heard first-hand accounts of people urinating and defecating in plastic bags to preserve the water in their cell's toilet for drinking.
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The government said the policy was expected to save 45 billion single-use plastic bags per year, or 225,000 tonnes, from incineration or landfill.
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"The turtles were contained in plastic bags and taped to Mr. Yan's legs," Environment and Climate Change Canada said in a statement on Thursday.
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In addition to plastic bags and big pieces of trash, Lecomte also comes into contact with a lot of small particles in the water.
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When they were just 10 and 12 years old, they created Bye Bye Plastic Bags, an initiative to help Bali become plastic bag-free.
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In the U.S., numerous organizations have done away with plastic bags or plastic straws in an effort to move toward more environmentally friendly options.
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Dozens of countries have imposed bans or taxes on single-use plastic bags, including Australia, the UK, France, China, New Zealand and the Netherlands.
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In his final months at Adelanto, Cruz said he resorted to bartering, trading shoes he wove out of plastic bags for ramen and cookies.
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It entails trying to eliminate tough-to-recycle items like flimsy plastic bags and also pioneering new ways to recycle or compost everything else.
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Lamont also proposed new taxes on electronic cigarette liquids, a 10-cent surcharge on plastic bags and new deposits on wine and liquor bottles.
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We don't buy milk in jugs (at least in certain parts of the country like Ontario) but rather cartons and, gulp, in plastic bags.
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A group of microbiologists have developed a device called the Fungi Mutarium that takes plastic bags as input and produces edible mushrooms as output.
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His children's only belongings were in pink plastic bags, and the family's documents lay in a white paper bag printed with a Canadian flag.
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"I'm worried about tomorrow and boats getting caught on plastic bags or banging into garbage," he told Reuters at the Marina da Gloria venue.
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In fact, the turtles kept their noses out of the water three times as long to smell the plastic bags compared to control smells.
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The plastic bags were filled with small bottles labeled "Corona Virus 2019nconv (COVID-19)" and "Virus1 Test Kit," the agency said in a statement.
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They removed the electronic detonator, 26 plastic bags of C4, ammonium nitrate and ball bearings from the chassis and door panels of the vehicle.
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Action aimed at plastic bags can pave the way for further measures to address free coffee cups, lids, stirrers, cutlery, straws and takeout packaging.
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In his midcareer retrospective at the New Museum, "We the People," this means old carpets, plastic bags, bottles, zippers, bed springs, keys and furniture.
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To save money, many people said their families reused plastic bags as trash or recycling bags, or used them to bring lunch to work.
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And, just last week, a dead sperm whale washed ashore in Indonesia with two dozen plastic bags in its gut, along with other trash.
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In the Netherlands, free plastic bags were banned two years ago, after a European Union directive was passed in 2015 to phase them out.
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The exhibition is filled with all manner of junk, from plastic bags to empty tissue boxes, old socks to single-use aluminum baking tins.
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Illegal souvenir sellers stashed their blue plastic bags full of tchotchkes in the tree limbs before ducking into bushes that they used as toilets.
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California, Hawaii, and New York have all passed legislation banning single-use plastic bags, though New York's law doesn't go into effect until 2020.
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A number of American cities, including Boston and Chicago, have also banned single-use plastic bags, while others have begun charging consumers for them.
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Now she sells small plastic bags of water out of a cooler, one of the thousands of market women who drive the local economy.
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That includes 25.1 million tons of plastic containers, 2159,22018 tons of disposable chopsticks, 232,0003 tons of plastic bags and 2000,22015 tons of plastic spoons.
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A Siena College poll of New Yorkers in April found bipartisan support for that state's ban on single-use plastic bags in grocery stores.
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For example, cities and states across the country, including California and New York, have banned or have plans to ban single-use plastic bags.
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In Montreal, a ban on single-use plastic bags took effect two years ago, and Vancouver will ban the bag starting in January 2021.
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Going into the kitchen, I discovered four or five plastic bags piled up by the door waiting to be taken down to the bins.
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There are no nationwide restrictions on the use of plastic bags in the United States, though states like California and Hawaii ban nonbiodegradable bags.
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Worldwide, plastic bags contribute to eight million tons of plastic that leak into the ocean every year, according to the United Nations Environment Program.
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Last March, lawmakers agreed to impose a statewide ban on the single-use plastic bags frequently given out at bodegas, supermarkets and other stores.
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He repackaged his other big seller, Warheads, in individual plastic bags and sold everything in increments of 25 cents, 50 cents or a dollar.
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You should also bring reusable bags to the grocery store so that you don't have to create waste by using paper or plastic bags.
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It was only possible to clearly identify the branding on 43 percent of the 8503,423 plastic bags, bottles and sachets returned by the cleanups.
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"I certainly wouldn't want your readers to think that within a few months, they can start throwing away plastic bags without worrying about it."
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"I went scuba diving in Greece and I actually saw more plastic bags than fish around me," said the Ocean Cleanup CEO and founder.
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Because local composters, at urban farms, educate their suppliers, they don't need to remove plastic bags, twist-ties and other detritus from their feedstock.
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"Plastic bags, wrapping, Bubble Wrap, they need all that," and it is a good way to reuse packaging you might otherwise just throw away.
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The city of Long Beach in Nassau County, also on Long Island, approved a 5-cent fee on plastic bags that began in 2017.
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The nasal swab will be wrapped in three plastic bags and refrigerated to keep it safe when it's transported to the lab, Goode said.
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Andrew M. Cuomo's goals in the coming year is for the Democrats who now control the State Legislature to ban single-use plastic bags.
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Although the country has levied taxes on plastic bags since 2016, so far those efforts have hardly put a dent in Indonesia's trash output.
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In Osodi's series "On the Waterfront", one image has two chilled out cows sitting amid a sea of plastic bags, bottles, wood and cardboard.
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It's deserted though, the few businesses still running are empty, and there seem to be more cats and plastic bags out than anything else.
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Today, Avani Eco produces four tons of material a day that is used for products including plastic bags, food packaging, and covers for hospital beds.
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Over the past five months, nine of the 14 deer that died in the famous park were found to have plastic bags filling their stomachs.
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The latest line offers a variety of sustainably sourced clothing and accessories, including sunglasses made from recycled plastic bags and shoes made from eucalyptus bark.
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It's not all doom and gloom, we've seen a 40% decrease in plastic bags on beaches in the UK since the 5p charge came in.
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The provision will effectively ban the single-use plastic bags that are found in grocery stores, which often make their way into waterways and oceans.
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This week: Kenya takes a stance against plastic bags, the world thirsts for exotically-priced bottled water and the chilling new health fad sweeping America
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Despite our love for air-conditioners and our two-maids-per-child compulsions, we know about climate change: We are trying to ban plastic bags.
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A few of the tire shops on East Erie Avenue were still open; plastic bags fluttered in the sagging concertina wire that lined the tracks.
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Mexican federal police had stopped a 21997-year-old man from San Felipe at a checkpoint, discovering black plastic bags balled up in the tires.
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"Today I made time to take all the plastic bags in the kitchen closet and car trunk to the recycling center" doesn't sound like much.
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Perhaps the labels are pricing these bags as such to remind consumers that plastic bags are not disposable, and we should not handle them wastefully.
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Many covered their white plastic bags with artistic memes created by Badiucao—colourful, playful images downloadable from his website—that reference censorship in modern China.
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The Heaven's Gate members, dressed in matching all-black tracksuits, had taken a combination of phenobarbital and alcohol and then suffocated themselves with plastic bags.
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The hardest things to identify, says Mr Thrun, are rarely seen items such as debris on the road or plastic bags blowing across a highway.
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Four others also were found Friday — dismembered in black plastic bags in two separate locations, on the side of a highway and in a neighborhood.
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To pack his product Mr Garcés brought plastic bags from the United States that regulate the air inside them (they are now made in Chile).
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Virgin plastic bags are so cheap, at 2100 cent per bag, that old (often contaminated) ones are rumored to be worthless; they just get trashed.
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Thailand's largest retail conglomerate Central Group said last month it aimed to reduce plastic bags by 150 million this year by giving customers rewards incentives.
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While we wait, I walk across the street and get socks and plastic bags for my feet (I'm wearing tall boots) because they are FREEZING.
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Do you find it exciting not knowing whether or not your local brewery will be able to fill up said large plastic bags with beer?
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"I want to improve sanitation so there are no more flying toilets," writes Grace, 2200, referring to feces in plastic bags thrown from people's homes.
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"I want to improve sanitation so there are no more flying toilets," writes Grace, 10, referring to feces in plastic bags thrown from people's homes.
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Fines can be applied for non-compliance but there are exceptions for the use of plastic bags for sanitary reasons, such as with raw food.
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Jilin, which banned production and use of plastic bags in 2014, has pioneered what could become a model for other regions to follow, experts said.
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In 2012, astronaut Don Pettit successfully grew a zucchini, sunflower and broccoli out of zip-lock plastic bags on the ISS as personal science experiment.
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It's hard with this ecosystem… there's so much plastic right now to wrap the world in plastic bags six times over—can you imagine that?
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They cite the millions of dollars the city spends to send plastic bags to landfills, and the problems the bags cause by clogging recycling equipment.
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The recently aired Blue Planet 2 BBC series left a tremendous impact on the public, galvanizing efforts to ban plastic bags and even drinking straws.
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A sampling of their reactions: Single-use plastic bags are the shameful hallmark of a society that has become overdependent on things we don't need.
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Part of that is getting consumers to take the plastic bags back to the grocery store, as opposed to just throwing them in their bins.
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When the wife opened what she thought was her package, she found several hefty plastic bags filled with hundreds of violet-colored triangle-shaped tabs.
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A Tennessee church group has recycled tens of thousands discarded plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless — and they don't plan on stopping there.
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"Part of that is getting consumers to take the plastic bags back to the grocery store, as opposed to just throwing them in their bins."
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Lights are pinned to the rocks below, and the sea is lit in shafts of lurid green that sparkle with moths and drifting plastic bags.
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The issue arises frequently, affecting policies large and small, like a potential ban on plastic bags, or the mayor's control of schools, or congestion pricing.
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Never put batteries, plastic bags, dishware, clothing, furniture, electronics, hoses, needles, prescription bottles, food waste or food-soiled paper in your recycle bin, unless instructed.
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Here in Rwanda, it is illegal to import, produce, use or sell plastic bags and plastic packaging except within specific industries like hospitals and pharmaceuticals.
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As was the case with smoking indoors, the use of plastic bags becomes less socially acceptable over time once the government moves to restrict them.
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María's family is now crammed into the backyard of her crumbled house where they have built an improvised shelter with poles and black plastic bags.
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He also pointed to four big plastic bags that he said contained all his family's possessions aside from a rusty foosball table in the garden.
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Before the governor's bill, the city of Long Beach and Suffolk County, both in Long Island, each implemented a fee on paper and plastic bags.
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Pictures began circulating online of people improvising face masks out of fruit rinds and cardboard—even plastic bags—as stores ran out of real masks.
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Take produce out of plastic bags to slow the decay process and don't wash produce until you're ready to eat it (to slow mold growth).
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In October, jail security officers seized 12 clear plastic bags of marijuana, an iPhone and a charger from one of the guards, the statement said.
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Still, after years of environmental lobbying in the U.S., only eight states — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New York, Oregon and Vermont — ban plastic bags.
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