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...
While banning plastic straws might help the environment in some aspects (we’ll talk about this later), there are also many reasons against (or cons) of a plastic straw ban. Here are 3 reasons why plastic straws should not be banned, explained in a simple and easy-to-understand manner: ...
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...
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Jimmie E. Gates, "New Law Will Prohibit Local Government From Banning Plastic Bags or Other Type Containers" (March 20, 2018) clarionledger.com Ray Howze, "Legislature Says Missouri Cities Can’t Ban Plastic Bags or Set ’Living Wage’" (May 6, 2015), stlpr.org ...
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.,...
Legally, vapes aren’t even supposed to be thrown in the trash because the nicotine e-liquid, which contains trace amounts of formaldehyde and other heavy metals, is considered an acute hazardous waste. Vapes also can’t be recycled. Because of the combination of products—plastic, lithium bat...
Supreme Court’s 7–2 decision established rules based on a pregnancy trimester framework, banning legislative interference in the first trimester of pregnancy (0–12 weeks), allowing states to regulate abortion during the second trimester (weeks 13–28) “in ways that are reasonably related to ...