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Article: San Francisco backs new bag plan.(News)
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- Waste News
- Article date:
- February 5, 2007
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Byline: Mike Verespej Plastics News
The fight over plastic bags in San Francisco is far from over.
Despite a 2006 state law that prohibits cities from banning or taxing plastic supermarket bags, San Francisco has crafted an ordinance that requires grocery stores to provide only recyclable paper bags, compostable plastic bags and reusable bags to its customers at checkout.
The ordinance defines a compostable plastic bag as "a plastic bag that contains no products derived from petroleum,'' and a reusable bag as a bag with handles specifically designed and manufactured for multiple reuse and made either of cloth or other machine-washable fabric, ...