January 31, 2020
EcoRI News, Staff, January 30, 2020- PROVIDENCE — Dave McLaughlin of Clean Ocean Access put it best when he described the latest bill for a statewide ban on plastic shopping bags: “It’s like a test. You want a 98 but you’ll take a 91,” he said after a Jan. 29 …
January 7, 2020
Waste Dive, Katie Pyzyk, January 6, 2020- The Denver City Council recently approved a bill setting a 10-cent fee on each “disposable” plastic and paper bag customers receive from retail stores. The city will receive 6 cents per bag sold to be used for administrative costs and waste reduction programs. Retailers will …
November 7, 2019
Florida Politics, Ryan Nicol, November 6, 2019- Democratic state Reps. Anna Eskamani and Michael Grieco are once again pushing a bill (HB 6043) that would allow local municipalities to ban single-use plastics such as plastic bags. Florida law currently blocks local governments from acting on the issue. “[N]o local government, local governmental agency, or …
September 17, 2019
The Intelligencer, Charles Bolinger, September 16, 2019- As of last month, 300 municipalities across the nation have passed either a single-use bag fee, tax or ban, while state lawmakers have introduced at least 95 bills related to plastic bags so far this year. Bring Your Own Glen-Ed (BYOGE) wants to …
September 10, 2019
The Palm Beach Post, Frank Cerabino, September 9, 2019- If you think it’s high time that Florida gets serious about the environmental hazards posed by single-use plastic bags, straws and polystyrene containers, there’s good news and bad news in recent developments. Mostly bad news. It was nine years ago that the …