Plastic bag bans: Infographic shows how different regions stack up
Worldwide, we use more than 1 trillion plastic bags every year. Though many areas have worked to ban them, certain industries are against it, as are change-resistant consumers. This global survey shows you the trends.
Tue, Oct 18 2011 at 8:31 AM
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Infographic courtesy of custom reusable bags site ReuseThisBag.com.
 
 

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anonymous
motrgrrl Aug 08 2012 at 3:06 PM

Banning plastic does NOT save oil. Plastic is made from the waste products that result from the oil refining process. Even if we stopped all plastic production, the amount of oil that is used is the same. Let's get this straight.

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anonymous
Mark Johnston Oct 27 2011 at 12:59 PM

Most people don't see the connection between oil and plastic bags. I'd be interested in how much oil is represented by these numbers (what was the conversion rate in your China example?). Maybe if people made the connection between bags and risk of oil spills they'd think twice.. or at least they'd understand the reason for the tax!

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anonymous
Veroni Kumar Oct 19 2011 at 5:53 PM

Your information is incorrect! There is no plastig bag ban in Australia :-(

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anonymous
Barbara Mason Nov 29 2011 at 4:19 PM

Hello Veroni,

I think there are multiple bag bans in Australia:
http://plasticbagbanreport.com/northern-territory-australia-bans-plastic...

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Tarrant Oct 20 2011 at 7:31 AM
I just was looking at some online news sources that suggest that the ban on single use plastic bags (the type typically used by stores to bag purchases) went into effect in the northern territories on September 1. South Australia led the bag bans in 2009. The ACT ban on these bags started rolling out in June and should be finished by November from what I read. Is this inaccurate or have things changed since the last reports? Or have I just missed a chunk of Australian government/geography? (I am
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afraid that might have been an easy thing for me to do since my working knowledge of the layers of government in Australia is vague.)
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anonymous
Sgtriptide Oct 18 2011 at 5:55 PM
You know, i remember when i was a kid and we used to go get groceries at Safeway. Back then there was no such thing as a credit card,bank card,chip card. we carried our groceries in paper bags. some genius came up with the idea of plastic bags. we hated the idea back then but were forced to go along with the "TREND"! here we are some 30 years later and we find out HAY! this is a bad idea, so lets start another trend. forced to change forced to change again all in the name of capitalism. what a shame
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nobody was listening 30 years ago.
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anonymous
paradigm shift Oct 29 2011 at 6:30 PM
my relatives are all from the midwest. back then everything was from a local farmer, be it meat dairy eggs veggies. and all was saved in root cellars. it was extremely conservative. flash forward to 2011: everything which used to be simple common sense canning jarring etc. is now socialist liberal etc. as it is all threatens and scares giant megacorporations which own the former conservative party which is now the radical right wing human and earth hating corporate oligarchical theocratic fascist
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party.
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anonymous
paradigm shift Oct 18 2011 at 12:42 PM

China is a capitalist hybrid nation...US is a pretend democracy turning into a fascist state. yet china continues to be much more progressive than us.

if china can do this, why can't we? what the f*( is wrong with America???? is corporations purposely ruining air/water etc..so much better than China which seems to be doing the opposite, i.e. getting cleaner and cleaner while we destroy ourselves? is that the long term right wing 'agenda'?

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