Can plastic bag charges generate change?
By Harriet Blake Green Right Now By now, most people are familiar with the ubiquitous bright green (and blue and pink) totes that supermarkets are touting to replace hard-to-recycle plastic bags. Many...
View ArticleToronto aims big, with planned bans of plastics and toxic waste disclosure law
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Guess what city just mandated that businesses disclose their toxic chemicals, put a five cent price tag on plastic bags and set up a future ban on the sale of...
View ArticleWant to use fewer plastic bags? Here’s how
By Robert Lilienfeld Green Right Now My New Year’s Resolution Fifteen years ago, the big environmental issue making headlines was whether to use cloth or disposable diapers. We were supposedly going...
View ArticleBerkeley to be the first farmers market to nix plastic bags
By Laura Elizabeth May Green Right Now Berkeley Farmers Markets announced Monday that it will be the first farmers market to eliminate the use of plastic bags and packaging from their three weekly...
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Bagging the bags: How I beat the plastic for a week
By Sommer Saadi Green Right Now As I unloaded my groceries onto the conveyor belt, I realized I was buying more than could fit in my reusable bags. “Can you try to fit everything in these?” I asked,...
View ArticleTime to cross off plastic bags off our grocery list
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This whole debate about plastic bags once seemed frivolous to me, next to some of the really mammoth issues confronting society — food scarcity, global warming, coal...
View ArticleBrownsville, Texas, says yes to plastic bag fee
From Green Right Now Reports Brownsville, Texas, recently amended a voluntary plastic bag ban to add a $1 surcharge on shoppers each time they choose to use plastic bags. The ordinance will become...
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Lowe’s offers more recycling options to customers
Lowe's new recycling centers collect batteries, lightbulbs and plastic bags. From Green Right Now Reports Recycling in earnest can make a person crazy. Maybe you’ve got curbside pick up for plastic...
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Don’t let dirty tote bags scare you, just get better ones
From Green Right Now Reports Reusable shopping bags, which once seemed like such a no-brainer solution to the problem of proliferating plastic bags and single-use paper bags, became the focus of a...
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Los Angeles becomes largest city in the US to enact plastic bag ban
From Green Right Now Reports Los Angeles became the largest city in the US to pass a plastic bag ban, when the City Council voted 13 to 1 today to disallow the use of plastic bags in supermarkets. Heal...
View ArticleBag ban to reduce waste in landfill
Starting Friday, disposable plastic and paper bags are banned at all retailers in the city. Exceptions include thicker bags with handles, laundry, newspapers, dry cleaners and waste bags. The bag ban...
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Dallas follows Austin with action against plastic bags; San Francisco enacts...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now This month two major US cities pushed the case against plastic disposables a little bit farther down the road. A plastic bag adorns a blooming red bud in DFW. It...
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