Chicago, the nation’s third largest city, has become the latest U.S. city to approve a ban on plastic shopping bags. The City Council voted overwhelmingly in favor of a partial plastic bag ban in Chicago. The proposal passed with a vote of 36-10. The new ordinance will first go into effect in August 2015, when […]
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Senator Alex Padilla (Pacoima), Senator Kevin de León (Los Angeles) and Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Huntington Park/Long Beach) were joined by environmental groups and business leaders to announce a new, coauthored bill to phase out single-use plastic grocery bags statewide. SB 270 (Padilla and de León) would ban single-use plastic grocery bags in grocery stores by […]
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Every day, new cities, counties and states contemplate bag regulations. They also are reviewing what issues they may face if such an ordinance is implemented. Recently the City of San Francisco closed their court case on bag regulations. The California’s Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, affirmed San Francisco’s plastic bag ban and upheld a lower […]
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Los Angeles Update: Restaurants and retail shops are exempt from the LA bag ban. The Los Angeles Bag Ban on single use disposable bags will take effect on Jan. 1, 2014, at grocery stores and pharmacies. Los Angeles City Bag Ban targets the t-shirt style plastic bags offered at grocery stores and pharmacies. Are all […]
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A Massachusetts Legislature committee voted to move forward with a bill to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags. The state-wide proposition is likely to reach a final vote by MA lawmakers within the next few weeks. The Massachusetts Plastic Bag Reduction Act had many stores already reducing or eliminating plastic bags. The bill prohibited […]
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