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Angering bodega owners, New York will ban plastic bags on Sunday, joining California and hundreds of cities that have adopted similar policies

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New York will be the second state to outright ban the bags, joining California who enacted the strictest ban on the single-use bags in 2016.A bag on plastic pans across the state of New York will go into effect on Monday, March 1, a move environmental activists and state champions behind the measure see as a positive step toward reducing pollution and combating climate change.

The lawsuit was, at least in part, the reason that despite the ban going into effect on March 1, the state says it won't enforce the law until a month later, on April 1. The state said it plans to use the first month to "educate" people about the change.

 

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Why are they banning plastic bags. What are we going to do. Back to the good old days when paper bags were used.

Scientists have stated that overall, worldwide, most of the plastic trash in the ocean comes from Asia. In fact, the top six countries for ocean garbage are China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Thailand, according to a 2015 study in the journal Science.

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