Feb 20, 2020
Go Green and Grow Your Business On March 1, 2020, the New York bag ban will go into action. New York joins the growing list of cities, counties, states, and even countries that have banned single-use plastic bags. You can see the full impact of the bag ban movement...
Feb 17, 2020
Is New York Ready for Their Bag Ban? The bag ban in New York is almost here, which means the 19.5 million people who call the Empire State home need to find an alternative to single-use plastic bags. Will YOUR state be the next to implement a bag ban? Will your...
Jan 30, 2020
How Far Is the Bag Ban Movement Likely to Reach? To date, eight states have been banned single-use plastic bags. This is an amazing accomplishment! Banning single-use plastic bags takes a lot of work, primarily because there is a lot of resistance. The plastic...
Jan 28, 2020
Efforts Intended to Take on Massive Environmental Problem The Chinese government is taking steps to ban single-use plastic bags in response to the huge environmental impact of single-use plastics. This is exciting news because if a country as large as China can...
Jan 7, 2020
Find Out Which States are Going Green in the New Year Over the past summer, we launched our series, #StatesBanTheBag. The goal of this series was to highlight the efforts to ban single-use plastic bags at the state level. We already track the bag ban movement on our...
Nov 5, 2019
India Still Working to Reduce Single-Use Plastic India uses about 14 million tons of plastic each year, so it was big news when the Indian government announced plans to ultimately eliminate single-use plastic items. There are certainly plenty of reasons to ban...
Aug 8, 2019
A Look at the States Trying to Ban Bags Passing bag bans is hard work. A lot of planning and organizing goes into the ban. The people behind all of the bag bans featured in our #StatesBanTheBag series know this first hand. The people currently working to ban bags in...
Aug 6, 2019
The First State Becomes the Seventh State to Ban Bags The plastic bag ban movement is continuing to grow and for good reasons. Plastic is bad for the planet, and people are sick of dealing with litter near their homes as well as the ramifications of plastic litter in...
Aug 1, 2019
Beaver State Goes Green Oregon is the sixth state to ban single-use plastic bags and make the move to bags that can be reused. Given the strong ties many residents feel to the environment and the pull of the natural beauty of the Beaver State, it is no surprise this...
Jul 30, 2019
Bag Ban to Become Effective in 2021 State lawmakers in Connecticut knew something had to be done about the influx of single-use plastic bags that were littering their home state. While there was much debate about bans and fees, a push to use reusable shopping bags was...
Jul 25, 2019
The Green Mountain State Goes Green Vermont was the fourteenth state to join the U.S., and the fourth state to pass a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. For a state known for environmental initiatives and striving to have a positive impact on the planet,...
Jul 23, 2019
Single-Use Plastic Bags Banned in Vacationland? On June 18, 2019, Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, signed a statewide single-use plastic bag ban into law. As part of our #StatesBanTheBag series, we look into the fine print on the law, what led to it, and the impact this...
Jul 18, 2019
The New York State of Mind Goes Green New York was a relative latecomer to the bag ban movement. A few cities and towns passed or attempted to pass, single-use plastic bag bans, but things never really took off. At least, not the way things quickly grew in places like...
Jul 16, 2019
Going Green in Paradise The stunning, natural beauty of Hawaii is breathtaking and completely part of the history and culture of this archipelago. The tranquil and fierce beauty is prized and respected by locals and a major draw for the booming tourism industry. When...
Jul 11, 2019
A Look Back at The California Bag Ban California officially started the plastic bag ban movement in the United States. The movement first got underway in 2007 and in 2016 voters decided to up the ante with a state-wide ban. In this installment of #StatesBanTheBag, we...
Jul 9, 2019
More States Going Green with Plastic Bag Bans Single-use plastic bag bans have steadily been gaining in popularity. What started out as one ban in San Francisco has spread to cities, counties and more recently, entire states. We decided to take a more in-depth look at...
Jun 20, 2019
Pine Tree State Goes Green Maine made a significant step recently when the governor signed a bill passing a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. This comes after several years of various cities passing their own bans or laws levying fees on disposable plastic...
Jun 18, 2019
City Takes a Stance on Plastic in Public Spaces Orlando, Florida took a serious stance on plastic recently. The City Commissioners approved a law that calls to ban a variety of single-use plastic and polystyrene items at venues and parks in the city. We are excited to...
May 23, 2019
Understanding The Effectiveness of Bag Bans Plastic bag ban effectiveness continues to be a common question as the bag ban movement grows. Bans have become widespread as more cities, counties and even states pass their own single-use plastic bag bans. For each ban...
May 14, 2019
Empire State Plastic Bag Ban to Begin in 2020 People are turning to reusable grocery bags in New York and we couldn’t be happier! Single-use plastic bags will no longer be handed out in stores across New York after March 1, 2020. This ban comes after years of...
