Stories tagged "plastic bags"
July 9, 2019
The Governor of Oregon just signed into law a ban on single-use plastic bags that will go into effect in January of next year. The law also requires retailers to charge at least five cents for paper bags (with 40% post-consumer recycled content or more). Oregon...
April 4, 2019
The State of New York is poised to ban all single-use plastic bags shopping bags in the state. Last weekend Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the states new budget law “includes legislation to ban single-use, plastic bags provided to customers and allows...
March 26, 2019
Plastic bag bans have made headlines the past several years but have they worked? Good news from Long Island’s Suffolk Count indicates that they do! News 12 reported that it’s been a little over a year since Suffolk County’s plastic bag law went into...
