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2. Bin bag - Wikipedia

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   In a special on CBC Television, green garbage bags (first bin bags in Canada) ranked 36th among the top 50 Canadian inventions. [3] Black plastic bags were introduced in 1950 as star sealed bags. The first bags in the United States were green and black, rather than the now-common white and clear. Flat-sealed bags first appeared in 1959.

3. Plastic bag bans in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Single-use plastic bag ban. $0.10 fee for paper or reusable bags. [73] Town of Chestertown: April 4, 2011: January 2012: Plastic bag ban. Reusable plastic bags must be at least 2.25 mils. [74] City of College Park: February 14, 2023 September 1, 2023 Plastic bag ban. 10 cent fee for other bags. [75] Town of Easton: September 13, 2022 April 2 ...

4. Recycling codes - Wikipedia

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   Recycling codes on products. Recycling codes are used to identify the materials out of which the item is made, to facilitate easier recycling process.The presence on an item of a recycling code, a chasing arrows logo, or a resin code, is not an automatic indicator that a material is recyclable; it is an explanation of what the item is made of.

5. Waste container - Wikipedia

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   Japan's trash containers are divided into combustibles, cans/bottles/pet bottles and newspapers and magazines. Recycling trash can in Natal, Brazil. A waste container, also known as a dustbin, [1] rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.

6. Plastic bag ban - Wikipedia

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   Plastic waste on the mounds of garbage in the Philippines. Plastic bags cause many minor and major ecological and environmental issues. The most general issue with plastic bags is the amount of waste produced. Many plastic bags end up on streets and subsequently pollute major water sources, rivers, and streams.

7. Plastic shopping bag - Wikipedia

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   Plastic shopping bags are in most cases not accepted by standard curbside recycling programs; though their composition is often identical to other accepted plastics, they pose problems for the single-stream recycling process, as most of the sorting equipment is designed for rigid plastics such as bottles, [34] so plastic bags often end up ...