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Woman dragged under truck by bags
A woman is injured by a truck after her shopping bags are caught in the wheels.
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Green shopping bags linked to stomach flu
An entire girl's soccer team was infected with an outbreak of norovirus. The source: a reusable grocery bag that they ate cookies from.
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NB Liquor sacks shopping bag fee that raised thousands for anti-drunk driving charity
New Brunswick’s Crown liquor corporation will eliminate a fee for shopping bags that went to environmental and anti-drunk driving charities.
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Hawaii Bans Plastic Shopping Bags
Brett Smith for RedOrbit.com Perhaps because of their proximity to what has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Hawaiians have voted to ban the use of plastic shopping bags throughout the state by 2015. This month, Honolulu County became the final county in the island state to ban the use of non-biodegradable plastic bags at shopping centers. Voters also approved the ban of paper bags ...
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Mendocino County bans plastic shopping bags
Mendocino County supervisors on Monday unanimously approved a ban on disposable plastic shopping bags.
www.pressdemocrat.com
Braintree parking lot robbery investigated
Police are investigating a report from an 81-year-old Milton woman that her pocketbook and shopping bags were forcibly taken from her on the evening of May 13 in the Lord and Taylor parking lot at South Shore Plaza.
www.wickedlocal.com
SeaWorld theme parks to get rid of plastic shopping bags
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment will eliminate plastic shopping bags at all of its theme parks, a move the company says will keep an estimated 4 million bags a year from ending up in landfills as garbage or in the environment as litter.
orlando.feedsportal.com
Saskatoon won't ban plastic shopping bags
A call to ban the use of plastic shopping bags in Saskatoon has been rejected as too costly to implement and difficult to enforce, according to an advisory committee of city council.
ca.news.yahoo.com
Plastic bags should be managed, not banned
Cities in a number of Asian countries, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan, are currently on the warpath against plastic shopping bags.
www.scidev.net
NYPD arrests designer for planting 'false bombs' -- that are actually illuminated 'I Heart NY' bags
http://tmiyakawadesign.com NYPD arrested Brooklyn designer Takeshi Miyakawa for hanging these 'I Heart NY' shopping bags across the city -- and is holding him for a month-long mental evaluation. A high-profile designer has been arrested for planting false bombs in illuminated ‘I Heart NY’ shopping bags across the city...
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