June 9, 2011
Bring Your Own Bag: Monterey’s Angela Brantley says the city’s plastic bag ban would also likely impose a charge on paper. “Our goal is to reduce single-use carryout bags, period,” she says. “Human behavior change: that’s really what we’re after.”
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Mixed Bags
Peninsula cities explore a plastic bag ban – and hope the industry won’t sue.
At first glance, you might think Angela Brantley’s houseboat is surrounded by jellyfish. But the white blobs she fishes out of the water are actually flimsy plastic bags. “We find them everywhere,” says Brantley, who ...
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