Tag: Plastic Bags - Page 8
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Ontario Green Plan Stomps Federal Canadian Plan
Ontario is like California in the States- big, rich and powerful and able to set its own standards no matter what the feds do. Two days ago I was ready to trash Ontario Environment Minister Laurel Broten for her half-assed plan to reduce the use of
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San Francisco Bans Styrofoam for To-Go Containers
San Francisco does it again. A few weeks ago the city banned the use of all plastic shopping bags other than biodegradable and recyclable ones. Now, effective June 1, 2007, the law will require San Francisco food vendors who sell prepared food to use
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San Francisco To Ban Plastic Shopping Bags
Two years ago we reported on San Francisco's proposal to put a levy on plastic shopping bags. But now we learn they have leapfrogged that idea and gone for a full ban. As the San Francisco Chronicle saw it: "San Francisco's Board of Supervisors
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Most Huggable: Bank of America and IBM on the Green Track, "The Unsustainables," and Domes for the World
Bank of America announces a $20 billion environmental program to lend, invent, and give green
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TreeHugger Picks: Readers Ask, We Answer
Being a diligent TreeHugger isn't always easy, and can be confusing sometimes, so we're always glad to get thoughtful questions about how to do things greener. We've filed all of these questions away in the Q&A; category, and here are a few of our Q&A;
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IKEA US to 'Bag the Plastic Bag'
Starting March 15, all IKEA stores in the US will charge a nickel per plastic bag in an effort to get people to haul their Swedish Fish and affordable housewares out of the store in reusable bags and cut down on plastic bag waste. Proceeds of up to
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Bring Your Own: Reusable Bags, Cups & More
40,337,604,793 plastic bags have been consumed this year as I start writing this post, and 2007 is not even a full month old yet. At over 1 million bags per minute, using and chucking disposable cups and plastic bags can add up to nearly 700 pieces of
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TreeHugger Picks: Recycled Plastic Bags
There are so many damn plastic bags that companies and entire cities have started banning them, but that doesn't solve the problem of what to do with all of the bags left behind. While recycling plastic bags into other bags may seem silly, it's a great
