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The alternative plastic world is a minefield, cloaked in sustainability marketing that at best is aspirational, and at worst causes as many problems as the products it is trying to replace. A ban ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...