Plastic Bag Ban – Berkeley Farmers’ Market
"Ben Feldman, program manager of the Berkeley Farmers’ Market, said that the move was in step with the markets’ zero-waste campaign which aims to reduce and recycle plastic materials and to recycle...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Marikina, The Philippines
"Instead of plastics, marketgoers are encouraged to use bayong or biodegradable bags." ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban – Kirkintilloch, Scotland Sort of, retailers are being encouraged to...
View ArticleList of Places That Have Banned Plastic Bags
It's Earth Day today and what better way to celebrate than to celebrate places that are making giant leaps forward in their care of the environment. Since August, I've been documenting areas, cities,...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong
"Yau said a recent opinion poll showed that over 90% of Hong Kong residents agreed with reducing the use of plastic bags and 80% said they would actively support the environmental levy scheme to handle...
View ArticlePlastic Bags Ban – Outer Banks, NC
"The flimsy bags have turned into post-purchase tumbleweeds polluting the landscape of the Outer Banks, which relies on its landscape to attract tourists." ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban –...
View ArticleBig Pile of Plastic Shit in the Pacific
This garbage patch is the reason I track all the plastic bag bans around the world. Via Twitter. ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban FAIL – Big Island, Hawaii "Kaetsu was concerned it would have...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – San Jose, CA
"By a vote of 9-1, San Jose City Council members asked city staff to draw up an ordinance Tuesday that would ban single-use plastic and paper carry-out bags from the city’s retail establishments by...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Kauai, Hawaii
" The Kauai County Council voted 4-2 yesterday to ban plastic carryout bags." ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban – The Big Island, Hawaii Council Chairman Pete Hoffmann...said it generated more...
View ArticleOne Reason the Giant Garbage Island in the Pacific Sucks
If you haven't ever seen pictures of dead baby birds with tons of plastic in their stomachs, click through here. These photographs, by Chris Jordan (Running the Numbers), were taken 2K miles from the...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Nothern Territory, Australia
"Legislation will be passed next year banning the supply by retailers to customers of all lightweight single-use bags." ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban – South Australia "The legislation...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Brownsville, TX
"Brownsville officials are hoping a unanimously passed ban on plastic grocery bags will make the city the first in Texas to rid the landscape of the so-called “urban tumbleweeds.â€" ###Possibly...
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Snowman Says, “Bring Back Arrested Development”
At a recent Snowman protest, one protester carried a familiar sign. President Obama, this is a movement you need to pay attention to. ###Possibly related posts: ‘Obama Bring Back Arrested Development’...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Kadıköy, Turkey
"One of Istanbul’s most populated and cosmopolitan districts, Kadıköy, imposed a ban last week on the use of plastic bags." ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban – New Delhi, India "It is only...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban Fail – Manhattan Beach, CA
"In a victory for the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a group of manufacturers, distributors and suppliers, Div. Five held that the California Environmental Quality Act required an environmental impact...
View ArticleGiant Plastic Island In The Atlantic, Too
Awesome. Just fucking awesome. As if the giant fucking plastic island in the Pacific wasn't enough, there's also a giant fucking patch of plastic in the Atlantic, too. For someone who hates sharks as...
View ArticleSmall Charges Lead To Big Results
"When it goes from zero to even a very small charge, it can feel very bad," said Dan Ariely, an economics professor at Duke University. "It creates a very small financial burden but a very big...
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This is Going to Leave a Mark
In the court of public opinion, Toyota is circling the drain. There's reason for them to have hope, though, because BP just plummeted below them. And rightfully so. ###Possibly related posts: Mark of...
View ArticleConcord, MA Bans Bottled Water
This is somewhat related to plastic bag bans, right? I wonder how effective/adopted these will be across the country. "The ban, set to take effect in January, is part of a statewide push to reform...
View ArticlePlastic Bag Ban – Tibet
"China's two-year-old ban on ultra-thin plastic bags has arrived at the 'roof of the world'". ###Possibly related posts: Plastic Bag Ban – Kadıköy, Turkey "One of Istanbul’s most populated and...
View Article“The feds saw…a bird go up in flames every two minutes”
Various types of solar energy are great because they reduce the use of fossil fuels, that said, they sometimes create a 'mega-trap' cooking entire food chains in the extreme heat they create. The feds...
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