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 manufacturing industry works hard to prevent bans from happening, and there […]
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 eliminate single-use plastic bags this action will have a global impact and hopefully […]
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 plastic bag ban map, but this series […]
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 single-use plastic, but actually doing so proved to be a significant challenge for […]
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 several other states know this, […]
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 our oceans. We have been tracking […]
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 ban was approved. For this […]
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 taken this past June. Connecticut is now the […]
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, Vermont largely stayed out of the bag ban movement. All […]
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 bag ban will have on residents, tourists, and the […]
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 California and even in Massachusetts. […]
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 trash, particularly plastic bag litter, began to mar these beautiful islands […]
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 analyze the evolution of the bag ban movement in the […]
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 recent efforts taken at the state level. We are […]
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 bags. We have been following the activity in Maine for a […]
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 add them to the plastic bag ban map […]
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 that is passed, there are a bunch more in the works, making […]
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 back and forth efforts to reduce the […]
Find Out Which Cities Have Banned Disposable Plastic Bags The landscape of the bag ban movement is always changing. There are constantly new cities, counties and even states looking into banning single-use plastic bags. While there are a lot of recently approved bans, there are also several newcomers to the bag ban movement, and there […]
Track the Bag Ban Movement Disposable plastic bag bans are continuing to grow in numbers throughout the United States. Several cities are looking at passing their own plastic bag bans to join the growing list of communities that are going green. Keep reading for an update on just some of the cities that are saying no […]