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As of May 2024, 12 states in the United States (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington) have banned single-use plastic bags. [6] In Nigeria, reports shows that over 60 million plastic sachets are used and disposed daily, [1] and only about 12% is recycled ...
Woodruff, who has studied the effect of some chemicals found in plastics on human health, reproduction, and development for two decades, first started looking into microplastics in 2021.
The technology exists—multinational fruit-labeling company Sinclair, among others, has been producing them for years—but the cost is higher given how cheap plastic is. A global ban on plastic ...
Black-colored plastic used in children’s toys, takeout containers, kitchen utensils and grocery meat and produce trays may contain alarming levels of toxic flame retardants that may be leaching ...
The law codifies extended producer responsibility (EPR) requirements for plastics, including a requirement that polystyrene be banned if recycling rates do not reach 25% by 2025. Recycling rates averaged 6% at passage, leading some to call the law a 'de facto ban', anticipating an inability to comply within three years. [97] [98]
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 ...
Two carcinogenic chemicals used in cleaning products and other common household goods have been banned in the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a Dec. 9 press release ...
Single-use plastic bag ban (including compostable) [376] [377] Deux-Montagnes: 2009: Plastic bag ban [378] Huntingdon: 2008: Plastic bag ban including bags used for newspapers and flyers [378] Montreal: 23 August 2016: 1 January 2018: Ban of plastic bags including biodegradable. Reusable bags must be at least 50 microns thickness. [379 ...