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Chinas plastic-bag ban turns five years old

2013-06-04 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: What do you give a plastic-bag ban for its fifth birthday? In the case of China, which over the weekend celebrated five years of restrictions on plastic shopping bags, officials are showering their ban with accolades and crediting it with keeping tens of billions of bags out of landfills and the environment. The rules, which took effect on June 1, 2008, ban the manufacture or use of the thinnest types of plastic bags. They also prohibit supermarkets, department stores, and grocery stores from...

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