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Artist turns thousands of plastic bags into Times Square public art project

by Marisa Mazria Katz
Oct 26, 2020
The pop-up "store" is filled with handcrafted items made from single-use plastic bags.
Artist Robin Frohardt stands outside her Times Square immersive art exhibit, "The Plastic Bag Store."
Maria Baranova/Courtesy of Times Square Arts
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Despite bans on plastic bags, big plastic is still winning

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Jan 29, 2020
The lobby has successfully prohibited 14 states from implementing state-wide regulations.
A plastic bag sits in a Manhattan street in New York City.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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The single-use plastic pollution problem

by Danielle Chiriguayo
Apr 22, 2019
This Earth Day, let’s do the numbers on single-plastic use.
This photo taken on May 12, 2018 shows a dog on a garbage-filled creek in Manila.
NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images
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Which shopping bag is "greenest" to use?

by Kai Ryssdal , Bennett Purser and Liz Sanchez
Apr 2, 2019
Paper, plastic or cotton?
Employees hand out free reusable grocery bags at a Whole Foods Market in 2008 in Pasadena, California.
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Los Angeles joins plastic bag ban

by Adriene Hill
May 24, 2012
L.A. has become the largest U.S. city to prohibit the use of plastic grocery bags. But the paper alternative isn't much better for the environment.
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Los Angeles moves to eliminate plastic bags

by David Brancaccio
May 24, 2012
The Los Angeles City Council has voted to phase out plastic bags at the checkout with a ten cent tax. Other cities around the country have enacted similar measures, but Los Angeles is the largest U.S. city to do so.
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Italy bans plastic bags, strives to be more eco-friendly

by Daryl Paranada
Jan 3, 2011
Italy is saying ciao to plastic bags. The country banned plastic bags in stores nationwide as part of a New Years pledge to improve the environm...
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BP says static kill is working...

by Bill Radke
Aug 4, 2010
... The government says three-quarters of the oil has already broken up! Louisiana shrimpers getting set to return to work. Not everyone's thri...
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