Plastic straw bans began popping up in Massachusetts in 2015 but didn't hit mainstream news until Seattle became the largest US city to enact a straw ban in 2018. Supporters of plastic straw bans argue that single-use straws have a negative environmental impact, but those opposed to a ban o...
California remains the only state to ban plastic bags, while 10 other states have passed laws limiting, or forbidding, cities and counties from enacting their own plastic bag restrictions.SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): The humble plastic drinking straw has become the villain of the moment for environm...
Today, California and Hawaii are the only two out of 50 US states to have banned plastic bags. Some cities, including the US capital Washington and Portland, Maine, make stores charge customers five cents or more per bag. On the hand, a dozen states have laws that actually ban cities fro...
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(2014) evaluated the environmental impacts of plastic bags for food packaging and preservation [37]; then a comparison focused on different straw materials, namely polypropylene (PP), paper and polylactide (PLA), stainless steel, and glass, within the South African market [38]; and lastly, an...
The demonstrators, including some young boys and girls, held posters like "Skip The Straw, Save A Life", "Make It Law, Ban The Straw," and "Kids for Plastic-Free Oceans" to back the speakers at the rally, including the city's Supervisor Aaron Peskin who is one of the sponsors of th...
I tried to count items individually because some containers might, for example, have a cardboard “body” but a plastic lid or straw attached (think juice boxes). I tried to capture numbers for each separate unit of plastic I consumed. I did my best to capture everything I used in the...
It's codified, there's norms, there's a peer review, so that you can't pull a fast one when you do a life cycle analysis. What that does is it takes every single input into a cup or a bag or a straw or whatever, and we're talking about every raw material, all the transportat...
Awareness helps prompt such shifts—viral moments such as the video of a turtle with a straw in its nose that circulated widely in 2017 are credited with greatly increased demand for straw bans or alternatives. But for real change, policies are necessary, including bans as well as fees and...
Glass tumbler with straw.Now that you’ve eliminated plastic straws, try theEllo glass tumbler with straw. Mugs Stainless Steel.I wasn’t a fan of stainless steel coffee mugs until I found theEllo Cole mug. It’s the perfect shape to carry (I’m a bit of a klutz) and the cork base...