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Chicago passes plastic bag ban
2014-04-30 20:29:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
The Chicago City Council has voted 36-10 to ban plastic bags in most stores next year.
Chicago moves closer to plastic bag ban
2014-04-25 17:29:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Chicago is poised to become the next major U.S. city to enact a ban on single-use plastic bags after a City Council committee vote April 24.
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European Parliament votes to slash plastic bag waste
2014-04-17 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Plans to cut plastic bag use by 80 per cent across the European Union have taken a major step forward, after the European Parliament gave the green light to a new package of regulations designed to slash plastic bag waste. MEPs yesterday voted strongly in favour of the European Commission's proposals that would require all member states to clamp down on single use carrier bags. The plans would also make it legal for countries to impose an outright ban on plastic bags without contravening single...
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EU seeks to cut plastic bag use by 80 percent by 2017
2014-04-16 19:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European Parliament passed a directive on Wednesday aimed at cutting the use of thin single-use plastic carrier bags by 50 percent by 2017 and 80 percent two years later. The directive leaves it to individual states to choose their strategy, for example taxing bags or banning them. EU ministers are due to debate the law in June and the parliament will take it up again later this year following elections in May. Some 100 billion plastic bags are used every year within the European Union and...
EuroCommerce raises concerns over costly plastic bag alternatives
2014-04-16 01:00:00| Packaging Gateway
European retail and wholesale representative EuroCommerce has raised concerns about the effect on profits of EU legislation to replace plastic carrier bags used for fruit and vegetables.
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