Archive for March, 2011
New Jersey Town Gets Proactive with Plastic
No commentsCherry Hill, New Jersey is on a crusade to promote the use of reusable bags, but it has also gotten active in attempts to take plastic out of the landfill stream. There is no municipal ordinance in place banning or limiting the use of plastic bags, but the city – and the Mayor – have [...]
Brunei Challenges the Plastic Bag Monopoly
No commentsThe nation of Brunei, a small sultanate located on Borneo, has instituted a mandatory ban on the use of plastic bags for shoppers in certain stores on certain dates. Brunei has a long history of religious and political conflict going back centuries, when empires and nations were evolving and disappearing in that area of the [...]
Getting to Market with those Reusable Shopping Bags
No commentsProbably the most persistent complaint we see about the advent of reusable bags as the conveyance of choice for supermarket trips, is the “I forgot the bags again!” lament. There are many variations on the theme, from “My kids made off with the bags again,” to “I know I stashed them under the sink…” to [...]
Washington DC – The Reusable Bag Law One Year Later
No commentsThere are 435 Members of Congress who thus far, have yet to memorialize the massive environmental burden of throwaway plastic bags by instituting legislative controls. The other 600,000 residents of the city have been living and shopping with a litter reduction program that includes a user fee for plastic and paper bags in retail outlets [...]
