Category: plastic bag

CA Official: Grocery Store Plastic Bags Are Not Recyclable

December 30, 2022
Local NewsNorthern Californiaplastic bagRegional NewsRegional-Local NewsRob BontaSouthern CaliforniaUS
0 Comment

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Since California adopted the nation’s first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable. But Attorney General Rob Bonta is now investigating whether the bags are truly recyclable as required by law. “We’ve all been to the store…

Read More

Think Those Bags Are Recyclable? California Says Think Again

December 30, 2022
Local NewsNorthern Californiaplastic bagRegional NewsRegional-Local NewsRob BontaSouthern CaliforniaUS
0 Comment

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Since California adopted the nation’s first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable. But Attorney General Rob Bonta is now investigating whether the bags are truly recyclable as required by law. “We’ve all been to the store…

Read More

The Plastics Revolution

June 15, 2022
Australiabarrier bagOpinionplastic bagplastic bag banslippery slopeViewpointsWorld
0 Comment

Commentary Alfred Sedgwick, an obscure English philosopher and logician who died in 1943 at the age of 93, is usually credited with the development of the slippery slope argument. The argument is used to predict, with little or no evidence, that the doing of an act might lead to, or result in, a chain of…

Read More

Cole’s Marine Waste Shopping Bags ‘Not Genuinely Reusable,’ Environmental Group

May 25, 2022
AustraliaBusiness & EconomyColesEnvironmentHealth & Safetyhome designLifestyleplastic bagplastic bag banplastic bagsrecyclerecycledreusablereusable bagsreuseWorld
0 Comment

The Boomerang Alliance, an environmental group that represents over 50 environmental and government organisations have criticised Coles new reusable bags made from plastic marine waste as a “not genuinely reusable.” “Coles have missed a golden opportunity to reduce the use of wasteful plastic bags by continuing to sell disposable shopping bags,” said Toby Hutcheon, Campaign…

Read More