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All plastic bags, including compostable ones, will be banned in Oahu stores beginning in 2020, and that's just the start of the city's coming restrictions…
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The ongoing effort to ban use of plastic bags, utensils and styrofoam containers moved forward at the Honolulu City Council Thursday. Although the city…
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Single use plastic bags are banned in Hawai?i — or at least they require an additional cash payment. Dozens of locations around the world now restrict the…
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The list of places banning single-use plastic bags is growing. This week, Charleston, South Carolina joined 10 other state coastal communities in stopping…
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It’s been almost two months since Oahu joined the rest of the state in outlawing single-use plastic bags. In the Asia Pacific, the latest country to ban…
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It’s been just over a month since customers at stores on O‘ahu started paying 15 cents for plastic bags. This week in Australia, one of the country’s…
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This Sunday, stores around Oahu began charging 15 cents for plastic bags. Most people realized this change was coming, and it hasn’t been a big deal. But…
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The use of plastic bags and polystyrene foam food containers continues to be a matter of controversy across the islands. Last week, the Maui County…
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Plastic bags have been a point of political contention around the islands for years. In May of 2015, O'ahu became the last island to ban the use of most…
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For the past year, shoppers on O‘ahu have not received single-use plastic bags at the checkout line. But in many grocery stores, thicker plastic bags that…