latest news
- Summit will call on supermarkets to cut waste
- Henfield shoppers bring their own bags
- Co-op ditches plastic bags
- Brighton and Hove council launches - Clean City, Clean Sea: working towards a plastic bag-free city
- BPEC - following in the steps of Modbury
- Green Councillors call for plastic bag free Brighton & Hove
- Transition Brighton and Hove supporting Plastic Bag-Free Brighton
- 100% North Laine bag launched
- Plastic bags: two views
- Artists Open Houses launch "Ceci n'est pas un sac plastique" bag
The notice that appeared on the website of China's State Council yesterday came as a welcome surprise: Starting in June, all shops will be forbidden from offering free plastic bags. Meanwhile, super-thin bags have been banned. Consumers are being asked to "go back to" using cloth bags and baskets. Meanwhile, Tibet's provincial government announced that it intends to ban all plastic bags period.