Links and Resources
• Impose a fee for one-use bags, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, June 8, 2011
• Facing the Dirty Truth About Recyclable Plastics Daniel Goleman, Yale Environment 360
• The Story of Stuff, interactive films about the life cycles of everyday products from extraction, through manufacture, all the way to disposal
• A resource for legislative bodies considering laws limiting the use of plastic bags is available at plasticbaglaws.org.
• BagIt! movie trailer
• Using a different approach to the waste problem, Dartmouth College replaced trash cans with 6-inch tall containers and dropped waste by 200 tons in a year! With Tiny Cans, A New Trash Equation, New York Times Green Blog, July 12, 2011
Chris Jordan’s photography of albatross killed by ingesting plastics on the Pacific island of Midway:
BagIt! offers an interactive map of all bag bans and fees around the world.
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