No More Plastic Bags In Delaware Recycling Bins - Will A Ban On Plastic Bags Be Next?

 

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News Journal item ~ State shifts on plastic bag recycling

“Plastic carryout bags, when put in Delaware’s curbside residential recycling bins, have the unfortunate tendency to clog machines at recycling centers and hinder the progress of the state’s Universal Recycling Program. Even the carryout bags billed as “biodegradable” can only be broken down under specific conditions, and that does not include the marine environment (oceans and waterways). Returning the bags to the at-store plastic bag recycling bins is the best option,” officials of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control said in a news release.

I guess this will make it easier for the General Assembly to consider the plastic bag ban bill under discussion ~

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