Plastic bags can contaminate food sources when improperly disposed, but will your food be exposed to bacteria without them?
Most plastic bags end up in landfills or as litter and no matter how you tabulate the numbers, plastic bags do not safely break down and it costs money to pick up litter. People and groups against banning plastic bags attempt to diminish the harmful and damaging realities of these facts. M...
Polylactic acid (PLA), a plastic substitute made from fermented plant starch (usually corn) is quickly becoming a popular alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics. As more and more countries and states follow the lead of Italy, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda and San Francisco inbanning p...
In the case of interim guidance of 24 March 2020 from WHO, called Infection prevention and control for the safe management of a body in the context of COVID-19 [38], it described the need not to use body bags (made of plastic), although they may be used for other reasons (e.g.,...
The myriad problems with and conveniences of plastic are well established, so the question remains how to balance the one with the other. Some jurisdictions have dealt with this problem by outright banning single-use plastics. In the United States, San Francisco was the first city to ban plasti...
Whether it’s creating bold, nostril-flaring fragrances to match the yuppies, upwardly thrusting mentality of the Eighties (remember Giorgio Beverly Hills, one of the few perfumes that can boast about having a banning order in certain restaurants for being too intense) to cashing in on the recen...