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From Topshop to Nike to Primark, brown paper bags are back in abundance on the high street. however are they any higher for the surroundings than plastic bags? When we tend to are spending extra money than we must always in robust economic times a minimum of we are being served the right item during . . . → Read More: Paper bags or plastic bags: that are best?
Shoppers seem to be choosing plastic bags over environmental issues, despite a Government-backed campaign to cut their use. Latest statistics show more shoppers are packing their supermarket purchases into one-use only bags, according to official figures, with around 6.4 billion carrier bags used last year – up on the 6.1 billion of the previous period . . . → Read More: Shoppers’ Use Of Plastic Bags On The Rise MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has sought the government’s help to levy a charge on consumers buying plastic carrybags. According to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2011, no plastic carry bags will be available free of cost and the BMC will decide on the minimum price. “We want to implement the process of charging . . . → Read More: Soon, pay for plastic bags Communities Aim to Build on San Francisco Ban, but Some Businesses Object; a Fee for Paper Sacks, Too By VAUHINI VARA The move to outlaw plastic shopping bags is spreading from San Francisco to other Bay Area communities, but the latest measures are rankling some shopkeepers and plastic manufacturers who say the bans go too . . . → Read More: More Cities Take Aim at Plastic Bags Plastic bags may not be as bad for the environment as previously assumed, and may in fact be better than their “eco friendly” alternatives, government research suggests. . . . → Read More: Plastic bags less damaging to environment It’s so simple — so gloriously simple. In 2008, China instated a law that made it illegal for stores to give out plastic bags for free. Instead, shop owners were required to charge for the bags, and allowed to keep any profit they made for themselves. The results? After two years, the poorly-enforced law has nonetheless dropped plastic bag consumption by a whopping 50% — keeping an estimated 100 billion plastic bags out of the landfills. . . . → Read More: China’s Ban Kept 100 Billion Plastic Bags Out of the Trash Obviously. The world has finally accepted by Al Gore during the election campaign years ramblings. And trying to correct the response, we in the United Kingdom, which is so bad about this – we are the world leader in waste production. According to British households produce waste line, the equivalent weight of about 245 jumbo jets weeks of waste … and believe it or not, it’s only for packaging waste. Now, what is European law that we are on course for ‘necessary’ packaging to another. But keep in mind that the law does not work and you have to say not all the packing materials or prohibit the use of these products on the market. Not only is the packaging that require a change, but our consumption habits. . . . → Read More: we want to use plastics By Alisa Gould-Simon While certain of Raf Simons’ colorful, ethereal creations for Jil Sander’s SS11 runway have earned plaudits in Milan, other pieces from the same collection are raising eyebrows. Lending all-new cachet to the grocery store staple, Simons served up plastic bags in an array of candy-colored shades (an increasingly popular SS11 color . . . → Read More: Plastic Bags Earn High-Fashion Stripes Forgetting the reusable cloth shopping bags on a few shopping excursions can result in an abundance of petroleum-based plastic shopping bags. Vilified for wreaking havoc on our oceans and clogging landfills for all eternity, the cheap and easy answer to transporting goods from store to home ranks high on the list of our collective consumer sins. . . . → Read More: Creative uses for all those plastic bags American Samoa, a U.S. territory, will soon make it illegal for stores to hand out plastic shopping bags — a step that California rejected earlier this week. . . . → Read More: American Samoa, unlike California, bans plastic bags |
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