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2. Plastic shopping bag - Wikipedia

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   Plastic shopping bags are in most cases not accepted by standard curbside recycling programs; though their composition is often identical to other accepted plastics, they pose problems for the single-stream recycling process, as most of the sorting equipment is designed for rigid plastics such as bottles, [34] so plastic bags often end up ...

3. Plastic bag ban - Wikipedia

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   The California Senate passed Senate Bill 270 in 2014 that banned the free single-use plastic bags available at grocery stores. This ban specified that plastic bags available at grocery stores must be 2.25 millimeters thick, contain at least 40% recycled materials, and be recyclable within California. [405]

4. California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping ...

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   “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

5. Do plastic bags shoppers return to Boise-area stores actually ...

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   Participating stores can accept plastic bags, soft-plastic product wrap and soft-plastic shipping supplies that are clean, dry, empty, noncompostable and marked with a No. 2 or No. 4 resin ...

6. Plastic bag bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Plastic bag ban for large retailers; 10 cent charge for paper bags. A higher fee may be adopted by the municipality or county in which the store is located. [2] City of Aspen: October 2011: May 2012: Plastic bag ban for large retailers; 20 cent charge for paper bags. [32] Town of Avon: May 1, 2018: Plastic bag ban; 10 cent tax on paper bags ...

7. No more ‘paper or plastic?’ California must close a loophole ...

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   Since the thinner plastic bags were prohibited, the thicker plastic bag distribution has resulted in a 46% increase in plastic bag waste discarded in California, according to a report by CALPIRG.