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Feature; Attitudes, laws worldwide on plastic bags use.(Opinion & Editorial)
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Manila Bulletin
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January 11, 2008
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Byline: The ASSOCIATED PRESS
SOME of the different ways in which places across the world are striving to lower the use of plastic bags by shoppers in a bid to stem waste:
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Canada first
In Leaf Rapids, Manitoba - the first municipality in all of North America to propose, pass and adopt a law forbidding the use of plastic bags by shops - it's either paper or cloth, please.
The chief administrative officer of the town of just less than 550 people, Martin Van Osch, said that, since the law took effect in April, 2007, "the compliance has been universal.''
The law has teeth, and calls for fines of as much as 1,000 Canadian dollars, though no one has yet ...