Links and Resources


  1.     Impose a fee for one-use bags, Glenwood Springs Post Independent, June 8, 2011


  1.     Facing the Dirty Truth About Recyclable Plastics Daniel Goleman, Yale Environment 360


  1.     The Story of Stuff, interactive films about the life cycles of everyday products from extraction, through manufacture, all the way to disposal


  1.     A resource for legislative bodies considering laws limiting the use of plastic bags is available at plasticbaglaws.org.


  1.     BagIt! movie trailer


  1.     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.