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Club to give out 200,000 eco-bags
SOME 200,000 reusable shopping bags will be given out free by the Rotary Club of George Town in 25 selected Giant hyper- markets in the country tomorrow.
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LA approves ban on plastic shopping bags
Los Angeles on Wednesday became the largest city in the US to approve a ban on plastic shopping bags.
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Woman dragged under truck by bags
A woman is injured by a truck after her shopping bags are caught in the wheels.
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Daily poll: Do you use reusable shopping bags?
Do you use reusable shopping bags? Kicking off "Waste Free JC" week, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy visited School 30 on Seaview Avenue yesterday morning to encourage students to use reusable shopping bags. "This is about making our city...
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L.A. OKs ban on plastic bags at checkout
Council also imposes a 10-cent fee on paper totes. The law will be phased in over the next 16 months. Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to approve a ban on plastic bags at supermarket checkout lines, handing a hard-fought victory to environmentalists and promising to change the way Angelenos do their grocery shopping.
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Hawaii Bans Plastic Shopping Bags
Brett Smith for RedOrbit.com Perhaps because of their proximity to what has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Hawaiians have voted to ban the use of plastic shopping bags throughout the state by 2015. This month, Honolulu County became the final county in the island state to ban the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags at shopping centers. Voters also approved the ban of paper bags ...
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Los Angeles approves ban on plastic shopping bags
Los Angeles today became the largest city in the country to approve a ban on plastic shopping bags.
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Mendocino County bans plastic shopping bags
Mendocino County supervisors on Monday unanimously approved a ban on disposable plastic shopping bags.
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L.A. bans plastic shopping bags
The Los Angeles City Council has voted overwhelmingly to ban plastic shopping bags, the largest U.S. city to do so.
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Green shopping bags linked to stomach flu
An entire girl's soccer team was infected with an outbreak of norovirus. The source: a reusable grocery bag that they ate cookies from.
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