In the run-up to the start of the District's 5-cent disposable bag fee, city leaders put out the word to area grocery stores and other retailers and organizations that they needed donations of free reusable bags. D.C.'s poorest residents would need ...
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Safeway Yet to Deliver Promised Reusable Bags to Non … – DCist.com
Recycle or pay the price: Washington, D.C., stores charge for plastic … – Anderson Independent-Mail
Since January, consumers in Washington, D.C. have a choice to be environmentally friendly or be penalized financially.
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Plastic bag tax tabled – Suffolk News-Herald
RICHMOND — Legislators have killed another bill targeting the disposable plastic bags provided by grocery stores and other retailers. A subcommittee of the House Finance Committee last week tabled House Bill 1115, which would have required stores ...
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Panel kills bag tax – Staunton News Leader
... disposable plastic bags provided by grocery stores and other retailers. A subcommittee of the House Finance Committee last week tabled House Bill 1115, which would have required stores to charge shoppers 5 cents for each non-reusable bag they ...
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Editorial: Trust market to kill plastic bag use (Feb. 4) – Corvallis Gazette-Times
We don’t much care for those plastic bags you get at grocery stores and other retailers — in fact, we pinch ourselves when we forget to lug our reusable bags from our car into stores.
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Merchants brainstorm promotions for downtown Madison – Recorder Community Newspapers
MADISON ‑ For the past six months, a group of merchants and business owners have been meeting regularly to discuss ways to bring more customers into Madison. The group is called “Focus on Foot Traffic for Retailers and Restaurateurs,” and ...
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Auckland supermarkets bow to plastic bag pressure – New Zealand Herald
Foodstuffs backtracks on plastic bag charge Retailers' deal sees bag totals melting Rapper and Mayor unite for bag campaign Charge to stay for plastic bags New World and Four Square stores in Auckland have bowed to public pressure and will no longer ...
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Auckland supermarkets bow to pressure over plastic bags – New Zealand Herald
Foodstuffs backtracks on plastic bag charge Retailers' deal sees bag totals melting Rapper and Mayor unite for bag campaign Charge to stay for plastic bags New World and Four Square stores in Auckland have bowed to public pressure and will no longer ... Semantic Topic Tags: foodstuffs plastic bags auckland public pressure
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Auckland supermarkets bow to pressure over plastic bags – New Zealand Herald
Foodstuffs backtracks on plastic bag charge Retailers' deal sees bag totals melting Rapper and Mayor unite for bag campaign Charge to stay for plastic bags New World and Four Square stores in Auckland have bowed to public pressure and will no longer ... Semantic Topic Tags: foodstuffs plastic bags auckland public pressure
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