American Samoa Bans Plastic Bags

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• Environment

  

  Ban The Bag: Jim Moriarty, CEO of The Surfrider Foundation, in the Age of Single Use Plastic

  This is part four of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here, here, and...

  by Stiv Wilson 1

• Environment

  

  "Plastic State of Mind" Mock Music Video Makes Damn Good Case for Banning Disposable Shopping Bags

  Watch this mock music video and learn everything you need to know about why plastic bags are really, really dumb.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Environment

  

  Bagging Plastic

  Plastic bags are going out of style pretty fast.Los Angeles has just joined San Francisco, Israel, Melbourne, China, and most of the African...

  by Alexandra Marvar +

• Culture

  

  Intermission: The Mesmerizing Inflation of Plastic Bags

  Nils Völker's grid of inflating and deflating plastic trash bags is mesmerizing. I don't know if this is the most beautiful thing I've ever...

  by Patrick James 1

• Environment

  

  How to Politely Refuse a Plastic Bag

  This flyer by the fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can employ when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 2

• News

  

  A Plastic Bag in Brownsville Will Cost You $1

  California couldn't pass that plastic bag ban we were expecting, but the city of Brownsville, Texas, is going ahead with a law that will charge...

  by Andrew Price 3

• Lifestyle

  

  Dietary Supplements: The Insanity of Plastic Banana Bags

  Military chocolate milk and Jimmy Choos are being served up in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!

  by Nicola Twilley +

• Business

  

  Plastic Association Takes Aim at Reusable Grocery Bags

  This morning I was tipped off to a new article over at Self called "The Dirty Truth About Reusable Shopping Bags." It cites a study that found "64...

  by Siobhan O'Connor 4

• Environment

  

  Intermission: The Majestic Plastic Bag Migrates to the Sea

  In the following nature documentary, one of the world's most delicate creatures, the plastic bag, migrates from the city to its natural habitat...

  by Patrick James 4

• Culture

  

  Slovenian Artist Uses Plastic Bags and Cups for City-wide Art Installation

  Made from more than 40,000 plastic bags and 7,500 plastic cups, this monster winds its way through the streets of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

  by Zach Frechette +

• News

  

  Wow: China's Free Bag Ban Reduced Consumption by 50 Percent

  Putting a price on plastic bags in China probably saved the world about 100 billion pieces of trash.

  by Andrew Price +

• Education

  

  Chicago School Bans Brown Bag Lunches, But Is It for the Kids?

  Students at Little Village Academy can't eat anything except the food served in the cafeteria.

  by Liz Dwyer +

• Environment

  

  How to Make an American Quilt (out of Plastic)

  Leave No Plastic Behind seems to have successfully transformed the art of quilting from grandma's favorite pastime to a funky environmental...

  by Alicia Capetillo 3

• Environment

  

  Braiding Plastic: A Brazilian Firm Turns Plastic Waste into Rope

  A firm in Brazil is taking plastic bottles out of landfills and repurposing them as high quality rope. According to the Arteplas Web site, the...

  by Alicia Capetillo 2

• GOOD Blog

  

  Banning Foie Gras: Basically the Same Bad Idea as Banning Gay Marriage

  I don't mean to diminish the absurdity that is the failure to reject Proposition 8 in California, and the general national impulse to prevent gay...

  by Zach Frechette +

• Environment

  

  Clever German Bypasses Light Bulb Ban with "Heatball" Space Heater

  Here's an interesting way to get around a ban on incandescent light bulbs: Market them as space heaters.

  by Ben Jervey +

• Lifestyle

  

  Most Americans Still Have No Idea What the Health Care Law Does

  No wonder people are so against the Affordable Care Act—they have no clue what's in it.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz +

• News

  

  White Americans Now Have 20 Times the Wealth of Black Americans

  When the housing bubble burst, a lot of blacks and Latinos took a big hit that's left an extra-wide gulf between them and whites.

  by Cord Jefferson +

• Environment

  

  To-go Bag

  One water transportation technology that doesn't float (yet) From the Roman aqueducts to modern-day pipelines, bulk water transportation hasn't...

  by Andrew Price +

• GOOD Blog

  

  Garment Bag

  It's a bag. Made out of a suit. How cool is that?

  by Anonymous +