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Design
Can Designers Save the World Without Creating More Stuff?
How to redesign the plastic bag without using any materials at all… and other lessons about the power of design.
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.
Culture
What to Know Before You Freak Out About the Reusable Bag Lead Problem
Here's why you should be skeptical of the study that's telling you to scrap your lead-tainted reusable bags.
Design
Graze Organic: Because Every Bag Matters
Graze Organic's reusable cotton lunch bags provide a safe, convenient alternative to plastic.
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.
Environment
More Evidence That D.C.'s Bag Tax Had a Big Effect
When Washington, D.C.'s five-cent plastic bag tax went into effect, it looked like a good idea. Evidence just keeps mounting that it was.
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...
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...
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...
Environment
California Senate Rejects Ban on Plastic Bags
As it turns out, California has not banned single-use plastic shopping bags. Los Angeles Times
Environment
The Absurdly High Costs of Free Shopping Bags
What free, disposable product uses 38 million barrels of oil and costs the US $20 billion a year? Plastic bags. Grist
Environment
Entertaining an Argument Against the Plastic Bag Ban
California is considering banning the single-use plastic bag from grocery stores (and adopting a 5-cent charge for paper bags). The legislation,...
Environment
Walmart Test Drives Plastic Bag Ban
Nothing says all-American business like Walmart. It's the largest grocery retailer in the United States, the largest majority private employer,...
Environment
California Bans Plastic Bags
Acting on what the Los Angeles Times describes as "a flurry of new bills," California lawmakers have voted to ban single-use plastic bags at...
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...
News
Washington, D.C.'s Beautiful Bag Tax
Washington D.C. instituted a 5-cent tax on disposable bags-both paper and plastic-on New Year's Day. Now, when you go to the grocery store in the...
