LA and SB Move Forward with Plastic Bag Bans

Plastic bag ban

 

May 24, 2012, www.latimes.com | “The Los Angeles and Santa Barbara City Councils each voted this week to move forward with plans to ban plastic checkout bags and place a ten-cent fee on paper bags at grocery stores, convenience stores and similar retailers within each of their respective city limits.”

“Celebrate! Plastic Bags to be BANNED in Los Angeles & Santa Barbara! Hard work by Activists has paid off! Plastic Bags – a major source of Marine & Landfill Pollution- another way OIL (Plastic = Petrol) is killing our Marine Life. Click> LIKE if you agree the LESS Single Use Plastic in the World – the BETTER!
Blow them Away! Let your Opinion be known!-Vote Yes in Quick POLL by LA Times- Do u think its a Good idea? http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-plastic-bag-ban-in-los-angeles-20120523,0,2762537.story
  • COMMENTS:
  • Lindy Rose Alright! It’s about time the US caught up with the rest of the world on plastic bag bans!
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L.A. makes history with ban on plastic bags at stores

May 23, 2012, latimesblogs.latimes.com | “Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a hard-fought victory to environmentalists and promising to change the way Angelenos do their grocery shopping.”

Craig Krekorian shared a link.

Making History, Los Angeles Bans the Plastic Bag
During a morning news conference, Councilmember Paul Krekorian speaks about the need to eradicate plastic bags from within the city once and for all
  • COMMENTS:
    • GoodNews FortheEarth “CLASSIC STATEMENT BY COUNCILMEMBER KREKORIAN:

      “Los Angeles has always depended on the ocean
      Today the ocean is depending upon Los Angeles – to ban plastic bags!””
    • Lindy Rose, Valerie DawnStar, Anthony Bradley, and Craig Krekorian like this.

Hawaii Becomes the First State in the U.S. to Ban Plastic Bags

May 14, 2012, www.surfrider.org | “When the City Council of Honolulu passed a bill to ban single-use plastic grocery bags on Oahu in late April, leaders of the Surfrider Foundation and Sierra Club Hawaii met with the Mayor, who reassured them that he was going to pass it.”

“Look out for petitions near you to help spread the BANNING of Plastic Bags!
HAWAII Becomes the First State to BAN Plastic Bags!
(Plastic- another Petrol based product)
Plastic bags in the Ocean are particularly deadly for Sea turtles.
“Hundreds of millions of bags each year are left to float in the ocean. In p…

 

NGOs win battle against plastics

May 12, 2012, www.thehindu.com | “A couple of months ago, two NGOs based in Puttaparthi and Visakhapatnam recovered about 50 kg of plastic bags from the stomachs to two cows.  This prompted the NGOs Karuna Society for Animal and Nature, Puttaparthi, and Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA), Visakhapatnam, to file a PIL in the Supreme Court.”

“via Green Mother Medicine.
News of the Good: Plastic bags to be banned in India (very thin bags are already banned.)
“The court has fixed a time frame of six weeks for the Centre and the State governments to produce a document detailing
The Hindu : Cities / Visakhapatnam : NGOs win battle against plastics
www.thehindu.com
A couple of months ago, two NGOs based in Puttaparthi and Visakhapatnam recovered about 50 kg of plastic bags from the stomachs to two cows.”

Fort Bragg bans plastic bags

April 24, 2012 www.pressdemocrat.com | “Fort Bragg officials have approved a ban on disposable plastic shopping bags, the second Mendocino County city to do so in a week.”

Lindy Rose shared a link
Fort Bragg OKs plastic-bag ban
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  • COMMENTS:
    Robert Brothers “~ Yay! one more community joins the growing list, including Bethel, Alaska; Fort Bragg, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Solano Beach, and L.A. County in California, Westport, Conn.; Brownsville, and Fort Stockton in Texas, Edmonds, Wash., the state of Hawaii, as well as cities in cities in South Africa, Australia, China, and India. And lots more, see next post for a map.”

Plastic Bag Bans Spreading Across The United States

 www.huffingtonpost.com, WASHINGTON — Across the country, cities and counties are instituting fees on plastic bags, or even banning them outright, in an effort to prevent pollution and raise revenue for cash-strapped local governments. Four cities in Oregon — Eugene, Corvallis, Newport and Ashland — are considering banni…December 2, 2011, Veronica Smith and Judith Green like this.  Submitted by Sharon Morgan  “Ban them and other unnecessary disposables,”  Comment by GoodNews FortheEarth, ~ GROWING MOVEMENT, TIME TO JUMP ON BOARD! For a full list of the 45 towns in the US with bans, 8 countries with bans, and 8 countries and 2 cities with fees on plastic bags, go here: sites.healthebay.org

Kamikatsu, Japan is a Zero Waste Village

www.youtube.com | “The Mayor of Kamikatsu, a small community in the hills of eastern Japan, has urged politicians around the world to follow his lead and make their towns ‘Zero Waste’.”

Robert Brothers shared a link via PeopleTowels. Zero Waste Village = Kamikatsu, Japan

The Mayor of Kamikatsu, a small community in the hills of eastern Japan, has urged politicians around the world to follow his lead and make their towns “Zero…
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Boy discovers microbe that eats plastic

June 12, 2009, www.mnn.com | “It’s not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last May’s Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic.”

Lindy Rose shared a link.
“I’ve heard about this microbe before, but I had no idea it was discovered by a 16 year old boy! http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/boy-discovers-microbe-that-eats-plastic”
COMEMNTS:
GoodNews FortheEarth ~ “Lots of people are working on this! The article mentions several, but not this Amazon research posted here last March: https://goodnewsfortheearth.org/plastic-eating-fungi-found-in-the-amazon-may-solve-worlds-waste-problem/”
GoodNews FortheEarth ~ “I found this by searching our website. Please check it out for other topics too. We have links to articles going back to October, 2010 — but there’s lots of good news for the Earth that we have surely missed. If you know of some that we don’t, please post it to this Wall. Old good news is still good news : ) https://goodnewsfortheearth.org/”