San Francisco to ban plastic grocery bags
In San Francisco the board of supervisors voted on tuesday that they would become the first U.S cities to ban the use of plastic bags in supermarkets so that they could promote recycling more.
Under legislations, in 6 months time plastic bags that are produced by petroleum products. It is true that many other foreign contries have a similar legislation but the city legislator said that "it is astounding that San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to follow it's suit."
The city's enviorment department reported that San Francisco uses almost 181 Million grocery bags annually. And also says the previous promotions to recycling failed miserably with only 1% of thhe bags being returned to the supermarkets.
By banning plasti bags being given out in supermarkets would save up to 450,000 gallons of oil a year and would also save 1,400 Tons of debris being sent to land fills.
for more details visit:http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/environment.baggs.reut/index.html
2 comments:
I believe it is a good decision, this will promote people to reuse their plastic bags that they have at home and will prevent unnecessary garbages.
I believe that currently in Canada, No Frills and other grocery stores banned plastic bags. I am very satisfy that U.S. is finally trying to protect their environment. In my opinion, we used too more plastic bags everyday. All most anything that we are buying, we uses plastic bags. If the U.S. do not ban plastic bags as soon as possible, our environment will be in danger. Not only U.S., I think the whole world should banned plastic bags if it is for normal purchasing. If everyone in the world can work hard and cooperate together, recycle garbage and prevent unnecessary garbage, our environment will improve a lot and wild animals will not extinct.
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