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This prohibits certain retail and grocery stores from providing free, single-use, carryout bags to customers. Single-use plastic bags will be banned, and stores may sell reusable plastic or paper bags for a minimum of $0.10 per bag. [23] This law will only go into effect in areas without their own laws regarding single-use plastic bags.
The dissenting opinion, written by Judge J. Mosk, focuses on the language in the ordinance by clarifying the focus of the ordinance is on "distribution (not use) of plastic carryout bags" and "promotes the use of reusable bags (not paper bags) and does not consider the ordinance as a project pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act ...
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 ...
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Under the legislation, six months later, supermarkets and large retail businesses were not permitted to provide plastic bags at all, and on 3 August 2020 the total ban also began to apply to small businesses. Environment minister Carolina Schmidt said it is believed that the law eliminated the use of billions of plastic bags. [426]
California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell.
Exxon Mobil Corp. filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and several environmental groups, months after Bonta sued the oil and gas giant alleging that it ...
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