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Article: Los Angeles launches campaign to recycle plastic bags
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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Los Angeles launches campaign to recycle plastic bags
LOS ANGELES, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Los Angeles on Thursday launched
the city's first plastic bag recycling campaign, urging all retail
and grocery stores to recycle plastic bags.
The campaign coincided with the introduction of a new law in
California that takes effect on Sunday. The law limits the use and
littering of plastic bags and enforces the recycling of used bags.
Bins will be placed inside stores to encourage shoppers to recycle
plastic bags. Some grocery stores are also giving away reusable cloth
bags to shoppers.
"We are intent on capturing these plastic bags, not only at major
retail stores and supermarkets, but at ...