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Green Lifestyle News tagged with plastic bags

Mexico City Bans Stores From Distributing Plastic Bags
Green Lifestyle  (tags: business, mexico, plastic bags, outlawed, goodnews )

Lone
- 96 days ago - cnn.com
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexico City's thousands of stores went green Wednesday, as amended ordinances on solid waste now outlaw businesses from giving out thin plastic bags that are not biodegradable.
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Recycling Plastic Bags... Because Sometimes You Forget the Reusable Ones
Green Lifestyle  (tags: reuse, recycling, plastic bags, crafts )

Jeff
- 133 days ago - sustainablog.org
Some innovative ways to reuse and/or recycle those plastic shopping bags you've accumulated...
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Plastic Bag Use Drops 60 Percent in China
Green Lifestyle  (tags: china, plastic bags, sustainable, shopping, world, environment, news, green, green living )

Susty
- 150 days ago - us.oneworld.net
The use of plastic bags in China has dropped 66 percent since the Chinese parliament banned thin, single-use bags last year.
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Environmental Tips - How to Go Green   video
Green Lifestyle  (tags: trash, plastic bags, Green living, Green News, green media, eco-friendly, environment, goodnews, humans, interesting, recycling )

Teresa
- 180 days ago - youtube.com
http://WatchMojo.com/ presents... Some tips and suggestions for going green and doing your part to save the environment.
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Plastic Bags: Ban and Tax?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Environment, Plastic bags, Ban, tax, Reusable bags, Tote bags )

Suri
- 182 days ago - treehugger.com
San Francisco is the first U.S. city set to ban plastic bags and Los Angeles City Council followed suit, approving a ban, effective July 2010. Last week, they also tacked on a 25-cent fee on paper or plastic bags--including biodegradable versions--after...
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Study Commissioned By Plastics Industry Says Reusable Grocery Bags Dangerous
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, greenproducts, recycling, plastic bags )

Janet
- 183 days ago - healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca
The growing popularity of reusable grocery bags could pose a health risk to Canadians by increasing their exposure to dangerous bacteria, says a study commissioned by the plastics industry released Wednesday.
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Potatoes Hold The Answer to Plastic Bags
Green Lifestyle  (tags: Green, lifestyle, plastic bags, eco-friendly )

Jollygirl
- 250 days ago - thegreenrepublic.co.uk
A sea of plastic is still clogging landfill, tangling up animals and blowing into the oceans as marine litter, fatally disturbing aquatic life. Biopac, based in Pershore, Worcestershire, is a leading developer of eco-friendly packaging materials.
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IKEA to Phase Out Plastic Bags in U.S.
Green Lifestyle  (tags: shopping, plastic bags )

Michael
- 599 days ago - greenbiz.com
IKEA plans to stop offering plastic bags to its U.S. customers beginning in October following a successful plastic bag reduction program.
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Maine Asks Shoppers to Go to Reusable Grocery Bags
Green Lifestyle  (tags: plastic bags, reusable bags )

Kellie
- 606 days ago - hosted.ap.org
Maine lawmakers are urging consumers to do their bit to help the environment by bringing reusable shopping bags when they go to the grocery store. The Senate passed a nonbinding order Thursday, a day after the House took similar action.
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Time to Get Drastic on Plastic?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: greenliving, world, humans, plastic bags, business )

Cathryne
- 613 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Nine months after BBC Wales ran a competition asking people which policy they would most like to see implemented if they ran Wales, what has happened to the winner - a ban on plastic bags? The plastic bag issue just won't go away. People either want to
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BigRedRoo's Tips, Observations and Thoughts: If Carrier Bags Are Banned What Will You Pick Up Your Dog's Poo With?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, eco-friendly, family, greenliving, offbeat, interesting, plastic bags, carrier bags, dogs, dog owners )

Bradley
- 618 days ago - bigredroo.blogspot.com
It is likely, carrier bags will be done away with and everyone will use a longer lasting sturdier bag to shop. So what will dog owners use to pick up their dog's mess? How about ...
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Banished! Budget to Introduce Law Compelling Retailers to End the Use of Free Plastic Bags!
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, recycling, world, globalwarming, greenliving, energy, Plastic Bags )

Anne
- 620 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Chancellor Alistair Darling will set out a timetable warning retailers that unless they slash the number of bags handed out, they will be forced by law to charge for them.
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Battle of the Bags: Paper Vs. Plastic
Green Lifestyle  (tags: paper, plastic bags, greenliving, environment )

Brian
- 621 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Take an interactive journey through the debate over the "greenest" way to cart away groceries.
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Banish the Bags: Darling Promises New Law By 2009 If Shops Do Not Act Themselves
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, green, goodnews, shopping, humans, plastic bags, society, protection, business )

Cathryne
- 621 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Supermarkets were yesterday told to end the "plastic poison" caused by giving out billions of free throwaway bags - or face laws that would force them to act. Alistair Darling expects the big national chains either to abolish the bags or start charging
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Banish the Bags: Now Debenhams Joins Fight Against Bag Blight
Green Lifestyle  (tags: goodnews, plastic bags, protection, environment )

Cathryne
- 627 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Debenhams is to start charging 5p for carrier bags in another breakthrough for the campaign against "plastic blight". The department store is the first fashion retailer to opt for charging, putting pressure on shops like Bhs, Next and Topshop to follow.
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