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There is no national plastic bag fee or ban currently in effect in the United States.However, the states of California, [1] Colorado, [2] Connecticut, [3] Delaware, [4] Hawaii (de facto), Maine, New Jersey, [5] New York, [6] Oregon, [7] Rhode Island, Vermont [8] and Washington [9] and the territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, United States Virgin Islands and Puerto ...
In 2019, Maryland was the first state to enact a ban, which went into effect on October 1, 2020. [79] Bans were also passed that year in Maine and Vermont, with both states' laws taking effect on July 1, 2021. [80] [81] In 2020, New York passed a ban that took effect on January 1, 2022, while New Jersey passed a ban that took effect on May 4 ...
The ARPBA has actively lobbied against bag fees and bans in numerous states, including Massachusetts, [4] New Jersey, [5] and Virginia. [6] Prior to the passage of California legislation banning plastic shopping bags, the ARPBA gathered a petition with over 800,000 signatures, spending over $3 million in an unsuccessful attempt to block the ban.
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Plastic bans are laws that prohibit the use of polymers manufactured from petroleum or other fossil fuels, given the pollution and threat to biodiversity that they cause.A growing number of countries have instituted plastic bag bans, and a ban on single-use plastic (such as throw-away forks or plates), and are looking to spread bans to all plastic packaging, plastic clothing (such as polyester ...
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