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NO MORE PLASTIC BAGS: Ban Plastic Bags In California And Keep The Pacific Plastic Free. SIGN!
Environment  (tags: USA, california, plastic bags, pacific ocean, wildlife, water, pollution, protection, politics, green )

Jim
- 73 days ago - forcechange.com
The disposable plastic bags Californians use everyday are creating a toxic soup of trash in the Pacific Ocean. Plastic bags are carried to the Pacific via wind and waterways and have tripled since the 1980s due to the fact that they will never biodegrade
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Ban Plastic Bags In Florida! SIGN!
Environment  (tags: plastic bags, animals, conservation, ecosystems, environment, green, habitatdestruction, healthconditions, nature, pollution, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 166 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Globally, plastic bags are at the center of an environmental crisis. Not only are large quantities of oil used in manufacturing and transporting the bags around the world, but the bags have also created a massive plastic island in the Pacific, destroy..
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PLEAST WATCH THE VIDEO--Plastic Wars--The Impact of Plastic Bags
Environment  (tags: green, greenliving, greenproducts, plastic bags, organic, recycling, environment, pollution, world, humans, protection, wildlife, ecosystems, environment, destruction, habitat )

Cal
- 208 days ago - cnnpresents.blogs.cnn.com
"Plastic Wars" correspondent Amber Lyon finds plastic bags everywhere they should not be - in trees, on streets and even at the bottom of the ocean. She talks to a veterinarian who says he has seen plastic bags in the stomachs of whales, sea lions and do
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Ban Plastic Grocery Bags in Austin ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, pollution, plastic bags, protection, destruction, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 302 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Single-use plastic bags are everywhere, with between 500 billion and a trillion produced worldwide each year. Most are used to carry groceries from grocery stores to cars and homes. Although many are reused, countless more end up as litter, where they
55 comments
Plastic Bag Ban Takes Effect Friday in Los Angeles County
Environment  (tags: Los Angeles, Plastic Bags, Banned, Environment )

Katie
- 330 days ago - ktla.com
Changes are coming to a store near you. This Friday, July 1, plastic bags will no longer be offered to customers at stores in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
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Delawareans Support the Ban of Free Non-Biodegradable Single-Use Plastic Bags in Delaware ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Environment  (tags: plastic bags, environment, protection, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 369 days ago - change.org
This action will promote the health and safety of wildlife and watersheds, protect the natural beauty of our communities, conserve our oil supply, increase the longevity of landfill space, and reduce trash management costs to taxpayers.
35 comments
ACTION ALERT: Make Biodegradable Plastic Bags Mandatory! - PLEASE SIGN PETITION !
Environment  (tags: environment, recyling, plastic bags, wildlife, legalisation, oceans, protection )

Simone
- 374 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Plastic bags are a heavily consumed product of the non-renewable resource petroleum, when they break down they pollute the sea, the earth, the crops and the animals. Animals can think they are food and choke and die, or have them trapped in their
36 comments
ACTION ALERT: BAN PLASTIC BAGS NOW!!! - PLEASE SIGN !
Environment  (tags: environment, disaster, plastic bags, pollutions, wildlife, oceans, nature )

Simone
- 379 days ago - petition2congress.com
The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) estimates that 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. annually (that's over 1 billion per day with an annual cost to U.S. retailers of approximately $4 billion - which is passed on to
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I Support the "Say No To Plastic Bags" Coalition ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, plastic bags )

Cher
- 410 days ago - change.org
Each year an estimated 1-million sea birds and over 100,000 marine mammals die from ingesting plastic. Single use plastic bags end up in our landfills and take over 500 years to decompose. Many of these bags end up in our rivers and streams, which
87 comments
Petition to Ban Plastic Grocery Bags ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, plastic bags, pollution )

Cher
- 423 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Have you ever stopped to think about how many plastic bags are used everyday? These plastic bags are everywhere! Grocery stores, pharmacies, clothing stores, and even restaurants use plastic bags. In California alone there are approximately 19 billion
104 comments
Tell Minneapolis: Ban Single Use Plastic Bags ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, plastic bags, destruction )

Cher
- 500 days ago - change.org
Plastic fragments contaminate even the most remote locations on earth. Harmful chemicals leached by plastics are present in the bloodstream and tissues of almost every one of us.
15 comments
North America's Landmark Plastic Bag Fee Is in Danger
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, protection, plastic bags )

Cher
- 502 days ago - environment.change.org
Toronto was the first city in North America to make shoppers pay for disposable plastic bags
74 comments
Ban The Bag in Oregon ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, habitat, nature, protection, plastic bags, Oregon )

Cher
- 505 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
There's 100 million tons of plastic trash in the North Pacific concentrated by the oceans currents into a toxic soup twice the size of Texas where plastic outnumbers plankton 40-to-1. All this plastic pollution in our oceans poisons, strangles, starves,
20 comments
Tell California To Ban All Plastic Bags ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, wildlife, plastic bags, pollution, habitat, nature, destruction )

Cher
- 524 days ago - change.org
Plastic bags are littered all across California, inside lakes and oceans many of us go to enjoy and to adore the beautiful views but are instead looking at hideous plastic bags. Many animals don't know what kind of items they are and end up eating them,
94 comments
Ban Plastic Bags in New Zealand Supermarkets ! PLEASE TAKE ACTION ! !
Environment  (tags: environment, protection, destruction, plastic bags, wildlife, nature )

Cher
- 536 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
New Zealand uses 22 million plastic bags a week. That is a total of 1,144,000,000 per year. It takes 500 years for a plastic bag to degrade. They break down into tiny toxic particles that contaminate the soil and waterways and enter the food chain when
56 comments
 
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