China announced this week that production and use of plastic bags in supermarkets and retail shops will be banned beginning June 1. Chinese citizens use as many as 3 billion plastic bags a day. picked by wildminou 2 years ago

City Commissioner Sam Adams is pushing a plan to impose a fee on grocery bags. Paper or plastic.
Adams, who hopes to have the fee in place before he takes over as mayor next year, said he has yet to decide how much to charge. But he's discussing that the City Council vote for a fee ranging anywhere from a nickel to 20 cents per bag. picked by muppet 1 year ago

A very bright young student has successfully completed his first round of experiments looking for microbes and proper environmental conditions that will decompose of plastic bags in 3 months time rather than 1000 years time. The results are VERY promising. picked by jquipp 2 years ago

SOME 20,000 designer bags bearing the slogan "I'm not a plastic bag" sold out within an hour of going on sale at British supermarket chain Sainsbury's. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

The Canadian Plastic Industry Association (likely feeling reduced sales due to the popularity of reusable cloth bags) says that reusable bags are a public health risk. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

This is a site dedicated to milk bags. Canadian milk bags to be more precise. (Dairy milk - not to be confused with breast milk which also come in bags.) Canada is not the only place to have milk bags (You can check that out in the misc. section). However, this site will mainly consist of them, which makes sense since I live in Canada. So don’t go thinking I’m a milk bag racist. picked by 2longdogs 2 years ago

Is Big Plastic is out to get me? Will my story be told on 60 Minutes? Cashiers who cannot understand the concept of not wanting to use plastic and finding bags in mailboxes. It makes a guy wonder. picked by sbcea 2 years ago

It's free and trendy picked by gammerus 2 years ago

It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an ugly tangle of junk: nets and ropes and bottles, motor-oil jugs and cracked bath toys, a mangled tarp. Tires. A traffic cone. Moore could not believe his eyes. Out here in this desolate place, the water was a stew of plastic crap. It was as though someone had taken the pristine seascape of his youth and swapped it for a lan... read full post picked by psycmoe 1 year ago

A study has found plastic in the stomach contents of an alarming number of dead turtles, suggesting the extent of plastic pollution in the oceans. picked by Ankabout 8 months ago

The small British town of Modbury is set to become the first community in Europe to ban the ubiquitous plastic grocery bag. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Keep up with times and make your own cloth bags. picked by gammerus 2 years ago

Art Frahm was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising from the 1940s to 60s. Today he's best known for his “ladies in distress” pictures involving beautiful young women whose panties mysteriously flutter to the ground in public situations, often causing them to spill their bag of groceries. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. Doesn't it make you feel all warm inside? picked by ReBoot 3 years ago

Officials are discontinuing the use of trash bags featuring the county's logo -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s face -- after deeming them innapropriate. The move opens a window into the tricky decisions the county has to make more than two years after becoming the first government to adopt King's face as an emblem. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Claims of biology-based oil and plastic usually bear the caveat "in five years." But a San Diego-based company claims they will have a pilot plant for production of E. coli-based 1,4 butanediol (BDO), the base chemical for plastic products ranging from Spandex to car bumpers, next year. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

TRASH:anycoloryoulike hits the streets of the big Apple. The eco-friendly bags decompose in one to seven years and certainly brighten up garbage collection day. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Newborn babies in Japan who can't make it round to visit all their relatives can now send them proxies instead - cuddly bags of rice. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

"The criminal miners requested a few days ago that we supply them with body bags, and we have been doing such, and they have been bringing the deceased to the shaft stations,..." picked by rambler 6 months ago

PDSA vets saved the life of a mischievous puppy who swallowed a full-length plastic arrow, measuring 10.5 inches, almost as long as the puppy herself! picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago