LA Bans Plastic Bags

Los Angeles has followed suit with other California cities which include; Santa Monica, San Francisco,  Long Beach and San Jose, in banning plastic bags. It started by clean water advocates campaigning for years that it will reduce the amount of trash in landfills and ocean. One of the major reasons for the ban is that less than 5% of the plastic bags used are recycled. It is estimated that California uses about 12 billion plastic bags.

In 12 months smaller markets will be expected to remove plastic bags, larger markets will be expected to do it in 6 months. Also, after that time they will charge a fee of 10 cents for paper bags. People are expected to either buy paper bags or used reusable bags.

Story summarized from LA Times.

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