Category: Bags
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How Plastic Bags Were Supposed to Help the Planet?
BBC News covers the origin of plastic bags and compares plastic, paper and cotton bags.
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New Zealand Retailer Finds Alternative to Shopping Bags
Countdown, which has 180 stores across New Zealand, introduced the plan . Customers can purchase the reusable 18.4 litre baskets for just $9.60. They’re made from scrap resin that has been ground down and re-used . Countdown expects the move will cut out 350 million bags every year.
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Oregon Single-Use Bag Ban Goes Into Effect
If you live in Oregon and you’ve been shopping anywhere since 2020 started, you might have noticed something different. Single-use plastic bags are now banned in Oregon.
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Mexico City Bans Plastic Bags
Mexico City’s new ban on plastic bags has inspired visions of a journey back in time even as local makers of the packaging worry they could become obsolete.
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Bioplastic Bags Made From Cactus Juice
America generates almost 38 million tons of plastic waste every year, ranking second only to China.
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Newspaper Bioplastics Bags Excluded From Oregon Plastic Ban
Oregon’s ban on single-use plastic bags, which goes into effect Jan. 1, does not include The Oregonian’s newspaper bags, which are biodegradable. The new law specifically exempts newspaper bags.
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Plainfield Food Pantry Uses New Bioplastic Bags
New Jersey is poised to ban plastic shopping bags and many other disposable plastic convenience items as part of an effort to help our environment.
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Carrefour Adapts its Shopping Bag Strategy
The fight against plastic is a major challenge for the retail sector. Carrefour made it a priority in its Act For Food strategy.
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Regulation of Plastic Shopping Bags in Japan
The government plans to require retailers beginning next July to charge for the plastic bags they distribute to shoppers. It is part of an overall effort to reduce wasteful use of disposable plastics that are produced and consumed in massive volumes worldwide.
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French Bioplastics Association Welcomes Position of Environment Agency on Bioplastics Bags
The French Association of Biobased and Biodegradable Plastic Producers Welcomes. The French Environment Agency’s Report Confirming the Benefits of Biobased and Compostable Bags.
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Amendments To Ban Bioplastics Bags in France
Two amendments have been submitted in French Parliament last Thursday to ban bioplastics bags in France.
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French Government May Ban the Word Biodegradable from Bags
ADEME published an opinion on the environmental impact of fruit and vegetable packaging bags offered in food stores. ADEME is the French Environment and Energy Management Agency.
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The Truth About Biodegradable Plastics
What does it mean for something to be “biodegradable?”
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Consumption Tax Proposed as Vietnam Struggles to Fight Plastic Bag Use
Plastic bags should be made more expensive so that people can be dissuaded from using them, a deputy minister has proposed.
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Portugal City Council Goes For Bioplastics Dog Waste Bags
In the context of environmental policy, climate action and circular economy, Loulé City Council has been developing actions to reduce disposable plastic.
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Life Cycle Assessment of Grocery Carrier Bags by Danish Government
This study provides the life cycle environmental impacts of the production, use and disposal (“cradle-to-grave”) of grocery carrier bags. The study was done by DTU Environment and commissioned by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency with the aim to identify the grocery carrier bag with the best environmental performance to be provided in Danish supermarkets.
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IKEA Israel Removes All Single-Use Plastics Tableware and Bags from Stores
Furniture giant announced last year it was removing all disposable items from its stores, worldwide.
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How to Use, Recycle and Dispose Plastic Bags Responsibly
Even if you’re diligently working to reduce waste, disposable bags probably ease into your routine. Produce bags. Paper bags. Pretzel bags. Pet-waste bags. Garbage bags. Gift bags. Biodegradable bags. And so on. Even reusable bags eventually wear out. What is the best way to responsibly discard different kinds of disposable bags in an earth-friendly manner?…
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Korean Researcher Invents Plastic Bag Using Pulp and Crab Shell
Hwang Sung-yeon, 45, a researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, recently invented a plastic bag using substances from pulp and crab shells, the first invention of its kind by a Korean researcher.
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Fresh Food Packaging StePac Releases Sustainability Strategy
Fresh packaging company StePac L.A. Ltd., Tefen, Israel, has unveiled a sustainability strategy with four pillars.
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Manufacturers Call for Curbing Smuggling of Non-Biodegradable Bags in Pakistan
Following the ban on plastic bags in Sindh, plastic manufacturers have moved the provincial government to take measures for curbing the smuggling of non-biodegradable bags.
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Bioplastics From Fish Guts and One Cod Can Make 1400 Bags
Lucy Hughes, a 23-year-old student at the University of Sussex, has developed MarinaTex – a bioplastic made from organic fish waste and red algae.
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Boom in Bioplastics Bags Companies in India
At least 12 units coming up in North, 250 across country
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Thailand Retailers Stop Giving Plastic Bags
Giant retailers, plastic manufacturing titans, and department stores reached an agreement on Friday to stop handing out single-use plastic bags to customers starting early next year.
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Chilean Startup Creates Biodegradable Bag That Dissolves In Water
Recently, Chile has proudly become the first Latin country to issue a complete ban on the usage of the plastic bags, as a fight against the threatening plastic pollution.
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Mitsubishi Chemical BioPBS Polymer Adopted for Comme des Garçons Bags
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation announced that the Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons Co., Ltd. has adopted shopping and wrapping bags made from MCC’s BioPBSTM plant-derived and biodegradable polymer.
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SuperValu Goes Bioplastics
SuperValu to ditch plastic in favour of compostable shopping bags. Retailer hoping to take 2.5 million plastic bags out of circulation over the next year.
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Germany To Ban All Plastic Shopping Bags
Germany is planning to enforce a ban on plastic shopping bags, according to the country’s environment minister.
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Plastic Bag Fee and Stop In Connecticut
The green initiative that will charge retail shoppers 10 cents to use plastic disposable bags begins August 1st. But two chains, Big Y and Stop & Shop, have gone further and eliminated the bags altogether.
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Plastic Bag Sales in England Down by a Third in Last Year
Overall, sales of single-use bags by big supermarkets have fallen 90% since 5p charge introduced.
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Cyprus Plastic bag Use Reduced by 80% in One Year
Use of single use plastic bags has plummeted by 80%, a year after the introduction of a 5 cent levy, Elena Christodoulidou of the Environment Service told the Cyprus News Agency.
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Indonesia Government Supports Bioplastics
Customs and Excise Director-General Heru Pambudi said that one of the benchmarks for success in the implementation of plastic bag tax is the drop in the production and use of plastic and the growth of eco-friendly packaging industry, such as those derived from papers or other natural materials.
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Boots In The Middle of A Plastic Bag Polemic
Boots will phase out all plastic bags from its stores by 2020, replacing them with brown paper bags.
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Biodegradable Plastics Uptake Still Discouraging in Malaysia
The majority of traders in Kuala Lumpur continue to use oxo-biodegradable bags because they are cheaper.
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Aldi Goes For Bioplastics Bags
Aldi has said it will ditch its plastic bags for paper and biodegradable bags from July.
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The Debate: Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Bags
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Plymouth, designed to provide insights into the environmental deterioration of plastic bags made from different polymer types, has been the subject of some dispute.
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Pakistan Region Promotes The Use of Biodegradable Shopping Bags
The AJK Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has kicked off an integrated campaign across the state to encourage the use of biodegradable shopping bags to avert threats of negative impacts of the use of normal shopping bags to human body, livestock and environment as whole.
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European Bioplastics Doesn’t Agree With University of Plymouth Study
European Bioplastics doesn’t seem to fully agree with the recent study that everyone is talking about.
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Row Blows up over Disposal of Bioplastic Bags in West Sussex
A row has blown up over the disposal of ‘compostable’ bioplastic bags in West Sussex following concerns raised by a leading Horsham councillor.
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Contamination Alert Over Compostable Bioplastic Bags
An explosion in the use of bioplastic bags – aimed at curbing pollution – could contaminate compost made from recycled garden waste in West Sussex. And it could mean the widespread tainting of recycled compost throughout the whole country.
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Bioplastics Replaces Polystyrene in Jamaica
Jamaican Government bans single use plastics and polystyrene and packaging leader starts with bioplastics
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Burundi Bans Plastic Bags
The government of Burundi bans the production, import and sales of plastic bags and other plastic packaging.
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Waitrose Will Use Bioplastics Bags
Waitrose & Partners will start using bioplastics bags by next spring
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Bioplastics Bags Soon Available in Qatar
Biodegradable and compostable bags will be available in Qatar by the end of September.
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The “Bagisation” in Italy and France: a Market Engine for Bio-Based Plastics by Harald Kaeb
Bags matter because it is a huge market of more than 2 million tons in the EU. It attracts a lot of attention by the media & NGOs and a lot of interest by politicians. It is a starting point for bioplastics. Bags are not just a product but a symbol.
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Mater-Bi® Biopolymers
Novamont Presented New Range of Mater-Bi® Biopolymers at the 4th European Bioplastics Conference in Berlin on December 10 and 11.
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