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Plastic Bags Can Indeed be Recycled
2016-08-10 04:06:35| Waste Age
Plastic bags can be recycled at facilities that are set up specifically to recycle them. read more
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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...
Plastic shopping bags in France are now history
2016-07-02 00:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A ban on plastic bags distributed at cashiers in French shops came into force Friday, as the country makes the environmentally-friendly shift to recyclable and reusable biodegradable bags. The measure came into effect July 1 and was passed as part of a 2015 energy bill. It bans plastic bags thinner than 50 micrometres from being distributed at cashiers regardless of volume, and regardless of whether or not the retailer charges customers for the bag. Bakeries, butcher shops, grocery stores and...
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Going green: Morocco bans use of plastic bags
2016-07-01 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: As a ban on the production and use of plastic bags comes into effect across Morocco on Friday, green campaigners say that the country's consumers may need years to fully comply with the new law. A landmark bill passed by the Moroccan parliament last October banned the production, import, sale and distribution of plastic bags across the country. The bill, which became law on July 1, is part of a larger environmentally conscious effort across the North African country to go green. Morocco...
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Adacel bags contract to upgrade ATC simulators at Kent State University in Ohio, US
2016-06-23 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Adacel has received a contract from the Kent State University in Ohio, US, to modernise the air traffic control (ATC) simulators deployed at its College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability and Technology.
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