This garbage patch is the reason I track all the plastic bag bans around the world. Via Twitter.
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Plastic Bags Ban – Outer Banks, NC
Plastic Bag Ban – Hong Kong
List of Places That Have Banned Plastic Bags
It’s Earth Day today and what better way to celebrate than to celebrate places that are making giant leaps forward in their care of the environment. Since August, I’ve been documenting areas, cities, countries, and in some cases, stores that have banned plastic bags. In that time, there have been 25 notable bans and one unfortunate reversal of a ban.
Hopefully by next Earth Day, there will be too many places to document, and maybe the year after that, it will be unnecessary to document because bans will be so commonplace.
The places that have banned bags are, in no particular order: Mexico City, Sigatoka Town, Fiji, Palo Alto, CA, Fort McMurray, Edmonton, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kirkintilloch, Scotland, Greensboro, NC’s Deep Roots Market, Malibu, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Toronto, Canada, South Australia, Fairfax, CA, New Delhi, India, Unlikely Words » Plastic Bag Ban – The Big Island, Hawaii, Big Island, Hawaii, Red Sea, Egypt, Buenos Aires Province, Market of Choice, Westport, CT, Macedonia, Maui, Hawaii, Los Angeles, CA, Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated), Berkeley Farmers’ Market, and Marikina, The Philippines.
Plastic Bag Ban – Marikina, The Philippines
Plastic Bag Ban – Berkeley Farmers’ Market
Plastic Bag Ban – Marshall County, Iowa (Unincorporated)
What 365 Bags Look Like When You Wear Them
Via Universal Hub here’s what it looks like when you wear 365 bags.