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Environment got help from bag ban

Lexington Herald-Leader
July 03, 2008 - ...plastic bags."I still get plastic bags if I buy meat and it's leaky," she said. "I ask for a plastic bag, and then I reuse it at home or recycle it at the store."Bluegrass PRIDE doesn't have a specific campaign to promote reusable bags, but Moberly said it works with companies to find ways to minimize waste and encourage the reuse of plastic bags.Good Foods Market and Cafe allows customers to bring in their used plastic grocery bags for reuse in the store....
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Big Plastics, Big Dreams

The Columbian
July 03, 2008 - Smak Plastics Inc., different from the more common plastics manufacturers that employ injection molds, Kunz said. "Injection molding is for smaller parts," Kunz said. But the products Smak Plastics makes can be up to 11 feet long by 11 feet wide, a size that insulates the manufacturer from overseas competitors, Kunz said. "The price of shipping would be cost prohibitive," he said. Smak Plastics has leased 25,000 square feet of space at Olin Business Park in......
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (1)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - China has also banned the production of ultra-thin plastic bags, thinner than 0.025 millimeters."It doesn't matter how much a plastic shopping bag costs. Before she could bring out the bag she had with her, the clerk had put the melon in a fairly thick plastic bag. ...
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (2)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - Degradable plastic bags would only split and pulverize plastics earlier than the common type. Degraded plastic molecules would integrate with soil as well, reducing farming outputs. Plastic bags meeting with the 'free plastic bag ban' are not necessarily equal to environment-friendly bags. ...
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China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (3)

English News Service
July 02, 2008 - ...of plastic bags for a few years, industry officials said.In 2001, Shangri-La, also known in some guidebooks by its old name Zhongdian, the most beautiful and unstained place in northwest Yunnan, forbid the use of plastic bags. It became the first place in the country to ban plastic bags."During the past seven years, the most difficult thing for us is to find out proper substitutes," said Losang Chagxi, the environment protection bureau chief of Shangri-La County.When the......
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Ontario high school student develops way to decompose plastic bags in months

The Canadian Press
July 01, 2008 - After isolating these two bacteria, combining them with some sodium acetate and incubating the solution at 37 C, Burd was able to degrade the plastic by 43 per cent in six weeks. ...
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Los Angeles adopts proposal to ban plastic bags

English News Service
July 01, 2008 - ...of plastic bags will be banned at all supermarkets and retail stores in Los Angeles beginning Jan. 1, 2012 if a bag fee has not yet been established, said the committee.Consumers in the city of Los Angeles use 2.3 billion plastic bags a year. For the average retailer, plastic bags cost 2 cents to 5 cents, compared to biodegradable plastic bags that can cost 8 cents to 17 cents.The negative consequences of plastic bags and polystyrene containers are "increased waste to landfills,......
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Plastic warriors of childhood lure nostalgic baby boomers

The Miami Herald
June 30, 2008 - ...plastic toy soldiers were to little boys what Barbie was to little girls: indispensable and ubiquitous.They could be bought anywhere from 59 cents for a plastic bagful at a dime store to a princely $6.99 for the elaborately packaged playsets containing tin buildings and fortresses, so many of them (The Alamo, Valley Forge, D-Day) that the toy sections of department-store catalogs looked like military training manuals.The demand for plastic soldiers (or spacemen and aliens, cops......
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BRIEF: Plastics lack recycling locations Except for shopping bags and water bottles, it's hard to recycle plastics in Pueblo.

The Pueblo Chieftain
June 29, 2008 - But since plastics are very light, even when bundled tightly, the department was spending more for transportation than it was earning from selling the plastic. Bruestle said consumers have other options if they want to keep plastics out of the landfills. ...
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More shoppers are turning to reusable bags

Lexington Herald-Leader
June 28, 2008 - ...plastic bags. "I still get plastic bags if I buy meat and it's leaky," she said. "I ask for a plastic bag, and then I reuse it at home or recycle it at the store." Bluegrass PRIDE doesn't have a specific campaign to promote reusable bags, but Moberly said it works with companies to find ways to minimize waste and encourage the reuse of plastic bags. Good Foods Market and Cafe allows customers to bring in their used plastic grocery bags for reuse in the store....
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