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Hawaii Just Became the First State to BAN This Everyday Shopping Item
Plastic trash has always been a huge environmental problem, especially when the ocean is involved. But few states have seen the impact of maritime pollution quite like Hawaii. Now, Hawaii has become the first state to officially implement a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. "Being a marine state, perhaps, we are exposed more directly to the impacts of plastic pollution and the damage it does to our environment," Sierra Club of Hawaii director Robert Harris, said in 2012.
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Plastic is the bane of our existence. It will stick around for generations to come and continue to ruin our atmosphere and kill wild animals. The sooner we halt this, the better.
I agree. We take our own cloth bags shopping as needed.
Will plastic bottles be next,I see so many of them everywhere.