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Los Angeles to trash plastic shopping bags in 2010

Charleston Daily Mail, West Virginia
July 24, 2008 - The city estimates more than 2 billion plastic bags are used each year in Los Angeles. About 5 percent of plastic bags and 21 percent of paper bags are recycled in California. The city estimates more than 2 billion plastic bags are used each year in Los Angeles. ...
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No plastic bags in LA stores beginning July 2010

Birmingham News, Alabama
July 23, 2008 - The City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores, beginning July 1, 2010. The city estimates more than 2 billion plastic bags are used each year in Los Angeles. About 5 percent of plastic bags and 21 percent of paper bags are recycled in California. ...
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Grocery bag fee headed to full council

Seattle Post-Intelligencer
July 22, 2008 - Do they know that the city wants to get rid of plastic and paper bags? The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores, beginning July 1, 2010. It supports the move toward reusable bags. "Like everyone else, we have used plastic bags for years. ...
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BPCL-KR solution to dispose of waste plastics

The Hindu Business Line
July 21, 2008 - ...plastics, which causes a large environmental concern, a study conducted by KRL officials said.The study revealed that up to 3 per cent of waste plastics could be added to the bitumen and beyond this level, the waste plastics tend to separate. Experiments at KR also revealed that separation of plastics takes place on re-heating the waste plastic bitumen blends prior to laying, hence KR had suggested ‘onsite’ mixing of waste plastics along with the......
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Bags get sacked Farmer charges for bags to make ecological point; some customers tell him to get stuffed

Chicago Tribune
July 20, 2008 - Plastic bags, after all, had been getting a bad rap for the environmental harm they can cause long before this farmer took a position. ...
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EDITORIAL Win-win for local farmers

Press-Republican
July 18, 2008 - In fact, a representative from the company manufacturing the Big Foot Plastic Baler will be available to farmers on-site as farmers start to use the machinery. Farmers who've used the equipment will help, too. Being able to recycle their agricultural plastics and make a few dollars as well sounds like a win-win proposition to us. ...
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City weighs banning plastic grocery bags Council committee approves measure, 3-1

The Baltimore Sun
July 16, 2008 - Today, Americans use more than 100 billion plastic bags every year, according to some estimates. ...
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Sintex in race to acquire US-based Continental Structural

The Economic Times
July 16, 2008 - Continental Structural is a global leader in the plastic automotive parts segment. "We have been scouting for acquisition in the US and European markets. In the US market, we are looking out for companies in the plastic automotive moulder segment. However, we cannot comment on individual deals," said Sintex Industries CFO, Sunil Kanojia. Sintex, better known for its water tanks, is now diversifying into foreign businesses of plastic composites and textiles. ...
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Sandy Bauers column: GreenSpace A mecca for recyclers

The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 14, 2008 - A bin of assorted electrical components. There's a final bit of sorting to do, such as the toothbrush package, which they decide is a No. 3 plastic. ...
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Recycling process for agricultural plastics reaches North Country

Press-Republican
July 13, 2008 - ...the plastic they use," said Blake Putman, dairy educator for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Clinton County, noting that farmers burn, bury or send their used plastics to the landfill. "If we can turn this used plastic into new products, especially with the cost of plastics going up, it will benefit everyone," she added. NEW TECHNIQUE As farmers watched the Ducharmes and Big Foot Plastic Baler representative Jody Sutton compact two months of discarded plastic coverings,......
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