California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Sunday that bans the use of plastic bags at grocery stores — after the state’s ten-year-old ban on single-use plastic bags was shown to have made plastic pollution even worse.
California’s 2014 ban on thin plastic grocery bags caused more plastic bag waste, not less, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A Swedish court has ruled that a non-plastic, biodegradable, reusable bag will still be subject to a tax on plastic bags because it looks too much like real plastic.
An alleged domestic abuser told a little boy to place a plastic bag over his mother’s head, according to disturbing livestream footage of the incident.
San Francisco, the city that has been at the forefront of a left-wing movement to ban plastic bags for more than a decade, announced this week that residents would no longer be allowed to use reusable bags at the grocery store, because of the threat of transmitting coronavirus.
States that introduced “green” regulations that taxed single-use plastic grocery bags in an effort to eventually annihilate them are now welcoming them back as health officials caution of possible contamination with reusable bags.
New York will ban single-use plastic bags in stores starting March 1.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo called the $175.5 billion budget “the strongest progressive statement that we’ve made.”
Somalia-based al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab has banned single-use plastic bags, according to its official media outlet.
