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San Diego Bans Plastic Bags

2016-07-21 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The San Diego City Council voted Tuesday to ban single-use plastic bags at grocery stores, pharmacies and corner markets. The goal of the new ordinance is to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags, decreasing the number of plastic checkout bags used every year. San Diego goest through roughly 700 million plastic bags a year, with only 3 percent of them being recycled, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. "The vast majority of plastic bags we see are entangled in the brushes next to our rivers...

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