Live Earth's blog Plastic bags have become a serious pollution
issue in recent decades. But we’re happy to see that many
countries and cities are doing what they can to reduce the waste
with new laws and bans in the works. Cities in the U.S. like San
Francisco, Austin and Malibu are working hard to ban plastic
bags. China was facing its own massive plastic bag problem,
often referred to as “white pollution." So in a step to
drastically reduce the use of bags, the Chinese government
passed a country-wide plastic bag ban in January 2008. The law
specifically states that supermarkets and other sales outlets
are prohibited from providing free plastic bags. The National
Resource Defense Council (NRDC) has a great, straight forward
five-step plan to repower, refuel and rebuild America. The U.S.
House of Representatives narrowly passed comprehensive climate
change legistlation today after months of contentious debate.
Thanks to your calls and actions, the historic American Clean
Energy and Security Act (ACES) will n