http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/14/ny-city-council-approves-plastic-bag-recycling-bill/ Environmental Leader Thu, 24 May 2012 16:26:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/14/ny-city-council-approves-plastic-bag-recycling-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-34207 Bag Monster Buster Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:20 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2008/01/14/ny-city-council-approves-plastic-bag-recycling-bill/#comment-34207 Recycling is a last ditch effort to reduce impact, but it’s no substitute for a good dose of prevention like bringing your own bag! EPA website: "A sturdy, reusable bag needs only be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags." The EPA website reveals only one percent of plastic bags were recycled and 20 percent of paper bags were recycled. If you found this information useful, you should know there's a blog for people who want to be entertained and informed about the bag crisis: www.BagMonsterBusters dot com Join the movement to adopt a healthy reusable ChicoBag habit: Become a Bag Monster Buster. Single-use bags are the poster child of wastefulness and they are creating Bag Monsters. You might have one under your kitchen sink... you know... the bag of bags you never get around to recycling? Yeah. Those ones. They're coming to life and exacting revenge over what they deem “discriminatory bag bans.” See what I mean at www.BagMonster dot com. Stay strong, and always roll with a reusable ChicoBag! Recycling is a last ditch effort to reduce impact, but it’s no substitute for a good dose of prevention like bringing your own bag! EPA website: “A sturdy, reusable bag needs only be used 11 times to have a lower environmental impact than using 11 disposable plastic bags.” The EPA website reveals only one percent of plastic bags were recycled and 20 percent of paper bags were recycled. If you found this information useful, you should know there’s a blog for people who want to be entertained and informed about the bag crisis: http://www.BagMonsterBusters dot com Join the movement to adopt a healthy reusable ChicoBag habit: Become a Bag Monster Buster. Single-use bags are the poster child of wastefulness and they are creating Bag Monsters. You might have one under your kitchen sink… you know… the bag of bags you never get around to recycling? Yeah. Those ones. They’re coming to life and exacting revenge over what they deem “discriminatory bag bans.” See what I mean at http://www.BagMonster dot com. Stay strong, and always roll with a reusable ChicoBag!

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