2nd Ld-Writethru: China to limit use of plastic bags from June 1: central...

Xinhua News Agency;  January 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ......banned from giving free plastic bags to customers as of...sales and use of plastic bags and support recycling...buy from shops with free plastic bags since shopkeepers...people inclined to use free plastic bags they offered simultaneously...

1st Ld: China to limit use of plastic bags from June 1: central gov't

Xinhua News Agency;  January 9, 2008 ;     553 words ......will be banned from giving free plastic bags to customers as of that date...Since stores began to offer free plastic bags more than a decade ago, shoppers...because most customers would use free plastic bags. Nevertheless, she said,the...

War on plastic bags is far from won.(News)

Pretoria News (South Africa);  September 3, 2007 ;     231 words ......the gauntlet in war on plastic bags (Pretoria News, August...to control the use of plastic bags. Our family shared the...a few years ago that plastic bags would be banned. The...no longer to receive free plastic bags and by having to pay...continue to hand out ...

Council may vote to ban free plastic carrier bags; Lib-Dems urge backing...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  December 17, 2007 ;     408 words ......SHAUGHNESSY Daily Post Staff FREE plastic bags could be banned in Wirral to...not only ending the use of free plastic bags within the council, but also...end the practice of providing free plastic bags within the whole borough. More...

Bid to cut supermarket's use of plastic bags welcomed

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  July 30, 2008 ;     433 words ......triggered a global movement to ban plastic bags, welcomed the move. Her experience inspired her to spearhead a campaign to ban plastic bags in her home town of Modbury in the...save money by slashing the price of plastic bags off their food costs. "The campaign to ban plastic ...

Ullapool bans free plastic bags

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  December 15, 2007 ;     371 words ......Highlands to ban stores from giving customers free plastic bags. Instead, Ullapool's Cottoned On campaign...compostable cornstarch bags or degradable plastic bags. Stores that continue to use normal plastic bags will either charge for them or ask shoppers...

London to say "no" to plastic bags

Xinhua News Agency;  November 14, 2007 ;     303 words ...London to say "no" to plastic bags LONDON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua...way to saying "no"to plastic bags following a decision...capital from handing out free plasticbags. All 33...prevent shops handing out free plastic bags andin the next fortnight...environmentaldamage done by ...

'The time is right to banish plastic bags'

Citizen Gloucestershire, The;  March 1, 2008 ;     423 words ...Gloucestershire's leaders are calling for plastic bags to be banished from the county...calling on traders to ban free plastic bags. A plastic bag summit, involving...actions." Last year 13 billion plastic bags were used by shoppers nationwide...to start charging 5p for ...

China needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (3)

Xinhua News Agency;  July 2, 2008 ;     475 words ......needs more efforts to fully ban free plastic bags (3) PROVINCE-WIDE THOROUGH BAN...stricter rules on the use of plastic bags. The provincial government has...production, sales and use of all plastic bags across the province, no matter...

China banning free plastic bags to cut waste

Charleston Daily Mail;  May 30, 2008 ;     386 words ......become the latest country to ban free plastic bags this weekend, part of a government-l...measure will reduce the amount of plastic bags used by a third from 1.6 million...games, didn't we? We can't have plastic bags everywhere." Under the rules...

Nothing to lose but your plastic bags

The Independent - London;  November 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......utilitarian as an ordinary plastic bag - these women can afford...cartons. But for most of us plastic bags are part of life's necessities...resort to turning their free plastic bags inside out so that the...ban shops from giving out free plastic bags. Don't ...

Turn over a new leaf; BORROWERS URGED TO GO GREEN AS LIBRARIES STOP GIVING...

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  May 29, 2008 ;     382 words ......to stop dishing out free plastic bags to help save the planet...and stop giving away free plastic carriers in libraries...proposing that the end of plastic bags should be marked by...bags are given away free, and they should then...

Plastic bags piling up around the world

Winnipeg Free Press;  June 16, 2006 ;     645 words ......I have a dog, but I still have more plastic bags than I'll ever use. I thought I had...bags to stop the spread of malaria. Plastic bags in the African country have become a...the catastrophic problems caused by plastic bags blocking sewage drains, causing flooding...

China bans waste of 3bn plastic bags.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 9, 2008 ;     284 words ......country uses more plastic bags than any other country...forbidden from offering free plastic bags from June 1 and any...manufacture of verythin plastic bags - include fines and...production and sale of plastic bags - and encourage therecycling...

Plastic just isn't our bag! A Midland village is on its way to becoming...

Birmingham Mail (England);  July 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the first place in the country to ban plastic bags. Cat explains: A BBC camerawoman, Rebecca...made a film about the terrible effects plastic bags have on wildlife and convinced the retailers...could do something similar. You see plastic bags in the streets everywhere. If you ...