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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 ...
The plastic industry is pitching chemical recycling as a great new hope in the battle against the plastic pollution crisis. Experts say not so fast The plastics industry says this technology could ...
Alternatives to plastic bags would need to be reused over a hundred times to make them more environmentally friendly than plastic bags. [26] [32] They are also viewed as less sanitary than plastic because they can bring germs from outside the store to high contact volume surfaces like carts and check out stands. [32]
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.
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The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Plastics is charged with developing the first international, legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
In the U.S., less than 5% of the BPA produced is used in food contact applications, [9] but remains in the canned food industry and printing applications such as sales receipts. [10] [11] On 20 February 2018, Packaging Digest reported that "At least 90%" of food cans no longer contained BPA. [12] Some type 7 plastics may contain bisphenol A
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