San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban

Is The Plastic Bag Headed For The Trash Heap Of History?

AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 05.31.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Ah, the little plastic grocery bag, we hardly got to know you. Although it seems as if the single-use grocery bag, as it's formal...

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San Francisco Sued Over Landmark Policy

Aaron Sankin | Posted 03.02.2012

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A measure passed earlier this year by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors largely banning the use of plastic bags by city retailers is being challe...

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Neither Paper Nor Plastic: City Expands Shopping Bag Ban

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.07.2012

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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed an expansion of the city's historic restrictions on plastic shopping bags. Whi...

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Will San Francisco Charge Consumers A Fee To Use Shopping Bags?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.16.2011

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The question "paper or plastic" is already more or less a moot point in San Francisco -- the 2007 passage of a partial ban on plastic bags in the city...

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Plastic Bag Bans Push Consumers To Use Paper, Making Cities Reconsider Ban

The New York Times | SABRA CHARTRAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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Three years ago, San Francisco was the first city in the country to ban the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag, but it was quickly followed by Palo Alto ...

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