Recycling | March 27, 2007 |
SF Votes on Plastic Bag Ban
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is likely to pass an ordinance that would require all large grocers and pharmacies to ban plastic bags. San Francisco would be the first city in the country to require that biodegradable or recyclable bags be used in retail food outlets.
While this may seem like an extreme move, there are alternatives including obviously paper, and also biodegradable plastics from companies such as Diamant Film. The company says its "Totally Degradable Plastic Additive (TDPA)" product biodegrades to carbon dioxide, water and biomass.
Eliminating plastic not only will reduce the size of landfills, but also reduce petroleum use since it is a vital component of many plastics.
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Some of the statistics are quite inlirdebce indeed.There has been a bit of a push in the UK to try and get people to be more concious of how many bags they are using, e.g. by the likes of Lidl charging per bag and tesco offering incentives of clubcard points for reusing bags (i think). Also, sainsbury have new bags that are apparently recycled.Either way, as the article points out a little bit, banning plastic bags is just going to cause other problems, and as a result, i would say is not the answer. Yes get people to be more concious and encourage the use of compostable bags made of corn starch or bags made of recyclable paper.
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