This article from the Denver Post points out how important it is to get legislation right when addressing the problem of plastic bags.
Encouraging people to move toward reusable shopping bags is a good idea.
We get that, and support it.
However, the bag-banning measure blowing through the state legislature has morphed into something that will be counterproductive [...]

The Aspen-Telluride area is not going to let it happen. I just read this news release today:
Aspen-Telluride bag challenge expanded
Beginning March 1, 26 mountain towns including three in the Roaring Fork Valley are competing in the 2009 Colorado Association of Ski Towns (CAST) Reusable Bag Challenge, to see which town can minimize their use of [...]

In an article in the D.C. Examiner Harry Jaffe invokes Bob Dylan’s famous song to remind us just what’s blowin’ in the wind nowadays. Plastic bags.

Or, he continues, floating by if you are on the Anacostia River or the Chesapeake Bay. Or washing in on a wave at Rehoboth. Or mucking up your [...]

Ever imagined them yucky plastic bags could become fashionable and eco-friendly?
An exhibit held last month at an LA store featured one-of-a-kind dresses made from plastic bags and other recyclable materials, designed by local L.A. artists.
Reusing plastic grocery bags and other material like cardboard, mussel shells, string, burlap fabric, wire and Christmas lights, the designers created [...]

People judge you by what you do, not what you say.
Close your eyes for a moment. Now think of Rolls Royce. Or Mercedes, or Nike, or Toyota.
Each of these names evokes very clear thoughts, feelings, and images. They all have a strong corporate identity, or brand, associated with their name, and it is no accident. [...]

The red carpet at the Academy Awards is going a little green this year. A reusable dry cleaning garment bag by Chicago-based Dry Greening will be the official “swag bag” for one of the Oscar after parties.
It marks the first time ever that a dry cleaning accessory will be featured in the gifting lounge at [...]

Over one billion single-use plastic bags are given out for free each day. Free? The term is misleading. To understand the real costs, we must consider the “cradle to grave” multiple impacts and the effects of each phase of a bag’s life.
Phase 1: Production Costs
* The production of plastic bags requires petroleum and often natural [...]

According to a new research study conducted by the Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI), among businesspeople over age 21, revealed that advertising specialties beat out all forms of TV, radio and print advertising as the most cost-effective advertising medium available. The average cost-per-impression of an advertising specialty item is $0.004, making it less expensive per impression [...]

The worldwide recession has made it even more unviable to recycle plastic bags. It was always an expensive and unviable proposition, but today is has become completely unaffordable.
This article from the Boston Globe spells out the story.
Plastics, Benjamin? Not in Somerville, not now. On Jan. 14, the city announced that residents could no longer put [...]

Entrepreneur Stuart Gold runs a successful business turning trash from the streets of Ghana into trendy fashion accessories.
“Our bags are complete trash”, runs the fairly appropriate tagline for Gold’s company, Trashy Bags that turns discarded plastic bags into useful and attractive bags for sale locally and for export.
On account of the undrinkable tap water in [...]