Ban Plastic Bags in Atlantic Canada

Target:

To ban plastic bags in grocery stores

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San Francisco has banned plastic bags, let's follow their lead here in Atlantic Canada. One Atlantic Superstore location in Halifax, Nova Scotia will stop giving out plastic bags this month--excellent! Let's tell other grocery stores and businesses to do the same. It takes 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture 100 billion plastic bags, which is how many are used in the U.S. alone each year.
"Sobeys and Pete's Frootique are encouraging the use of reusable shopping bags, and the Atlantic Superstore on Quinpool Road in Halifax plans to stop giving out plastic bags on Feb. 21."
"Chinese and Australian authorities recently outlawed plastic shopping bags because of pollution and energy concerns. The South African government has taken similar steps, and Ireland is taxing bags, significantly reducing their use.

In North America, San Francisco has banned plastic bags, and last year the northern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids became the first place in Canada to do the same."

Quotes taken from The Chronicle Herald

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca

For more information about plastic bags, how they harm animals:

http://www.messageinthewaves.com/facts.php

In North America, San Francisco has banned plastic bags, and last year the northern Manitoba town of Leaf Rapids became the first place in Canada to do the same."

Quotes taken from The Chronicle Herald

http://www.thechronicleherald.ca

For more information about plastic bags, how they harm animals:

http://www.messageinthewaves.com/facts.php

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We signed the "Ban Plastic Bags in Atlantic Canada" petition!

# 518:

9:58 am PDT, Aug 1, Lucy Dykhuis, Canada
With simple modern day materials we have created reusable bags that are far less damaging than plastic to our planet's environmental state.

# 517:

9:56 pm PDT, Jul 31, Jim Treacy, Australia

# 516:

2:52 pm PDT, Jul 31, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece

# 515:

8:21 am PDT, Jul 31, Phil Maillard, Canada

# 514:

12:11 am PDT, Jul 31, Melanie Moore, Canada

# 513:

11:10 am PDT, Jul 19, Cassandra Ward, Canada

# 512:

2:51 pm PDT, Jul 15, Jame Sisco, Florida

# 511:

3:06 pm PDT, Jul 11, Laurel Watson, Arizona

# 510:

11:29 am PDT, Jul 8, Name not displayed, Canada
Amazing Idea, down with plastic!

# 509:

8:52 am PDT, Jul 6, Sheila Zhang-Smith, Canada
Although alot of the stores now sell recyclable bags I feel there are still too many plastic ones being used. I feel that they should not have the plastic bags in the stores at all, out of sight out of mind. Just offer the boxes or the recycleable bags end of story

# 508:

3:42 pm PDT, Jul 1, Bill Sorochan, Canada

# 507:

8:11 am PDT, Jun 19, Elda Brown, Canada
I carry bags in my car at all times and have for some 15 years.

# 505:

5:47 pm PDT, Jun 16, Katharine Skipper-Horton, Canada

# 504:

7:40 pm PDT, Jun 15, RACHEL PARLEE, Canada

# 503:

4:59 pm PDT, Jun 8, Justin Richardson, New Jersey
Waste and stupidity are not acceptable. Please contact schools to have them teach good behavior and use eco-safe technologies.

# 502:

8:39 pm PDT, Jun 5, Logan Murphy, Canada

# 501:

6:53 pm PDT, Jun 5, Ken Morrison, Canada

# 500:

7:12 am PDT, Jun 5, Agnes Evans, Canada

# 499:

12:24 pm PDT, Jun 4, Jessica Budgell, Canada

# 498:

5:20 pm PDT, Jun 3, Sean Graham, Canada
This is quity ironic, because myself and a few others are working on a petition to ban plastic bags here in Fort McMurray. We already have just under 600 signitures after starting to collect signitures today.

# 497:

6:59 am PDT, Jun 3, Cynthia Lamson, Canada

# 496:

7:50 pm PDT, May 28, Barbara Spring, Michigan
Lets carry our own shopping bags or use paper. The world is getting clogged with plastic.

# 495:

7:24 pm PDT, May 28, Name not displayed, Canada

# 494:

12:29 pm PDT, May 26, Liz Purcell, Canada

# 493:

10:58 pm PDT, May 25, Sophie Szeferowicz, France

# 492:

5:51 am PDT, May 23, Bianca Fischer, Germany

# 491:

2:29 pm PDT, May 20, Myrna Matheson, Canada
I would be thrilled if all plastic bags were banned. The Coop Store in Truro is going plastic bag free this July! Yeah for them. People want to use the cloth bags but are always forgetting them in their car. One time to the car with their arms full and they would remember!!! How much nicer our countryside would look without these awful bags!!

# 490:

5:46 am PDT, May 20, Kristy Williams, Canada
With all the plastic bags already in circulation, it just makes sense to stop infiltrating our communities with new bags. Let's model an ethic of conservation!

# 489:

12:07 pm PDT, May 15, Joanne Hatfield, Canada

# 488:

11:53 am PDT, May 15, Reid Best, Canada
We can all easily use the reusable ones.

# 487:

7:19 am PDT, May 15, Jason Reasbeck, Canada

# 486:

6:29 am PDT, May 14, Name not displayed, Canada

# 485:

10:29 pm PDT, May 11, Nicolle Barteaux, Canada
I think this is a great idea. Something so simple can make such a huge difference.

# 484:

2:33 am PDT, May 11, Tara McGowan, Canada

# 483:

1:19 am PDT, May 9, Name not displayed, Australia

# 482:

9:55 pm PDT, May 8, Jennifer Langer, Washington
It's a small step toward a better environment, but it is so easy. This a change anyone can make!

# 481:

10:58 pm PDT, May 7, Name not displayed, Canada

# 480:

8:55 am PDT, May 7, Andy Howes, Canada

# 479:

8:53 am PDT, May 7, Petra Mauerhoff, Canada
NS is a leader in recycling, let's get plastic bags banned and take us one step closer to being a very green province!

# 478:

8:44 am PDT, May 7, Monique Albert, Canada

# 477:

6:12 am PDT, May 7, Donnaw Walsh, Canada

# 476:

9:50 am PDT, May 6, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

# 475:

2:24 pm PDT, May 5, Michelle Richard, Canada

# 474:

3:20 am PDT, May 4, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey

# 473:

5:49 pm PDT, May 3, Name not displayed, Wisconsin

# 472:

4:56 pm PDT, May 3, Rachelle Richard Leger, Canada

# 471:

1:00 am PDT, May 3, Leslie Johnson, Canada
the use of plastic bags is an unnecessary evil! what happened to the days paper bags were used? Re-usable bags are definitely the way to go

# 470:

10:25 pm PDT, May 2, Isabelle Goguen, Canada
I was not aware how much plastic bags were toxic to the environment. Thanks for the information!

# 469:

5:16 pm PDT, May 2, Nicole Morin, Canada

# 468:

10:32 am PDT, May 2, Silky Wyld, Wisconsin

# 467:

3:06 pm PDT, May 1, Batya Bauman, Massachusetts

# 466:

2:26 pm PDT, May 1, Louise Holton, Maryland

# 465:

10:05 am PDT, May 1, Name not displayed, Canada

# 464:

9:39 am PDT, May 1, Vanessa Garvy, Illinois

# 463:

9:36 am PDT, May 1, BiLL Fowlie, Maine

# 462:

4:45 pm PDT, Apr 30, Roxie Schliesman, Wisconsin

# 461:

8:22 pm PDT, Apr 29, Chloe Arbutina, Canada

# 460:

7:19 pm PDT, Apr 29, Laura Saunders, Canada

# 459:

4:37 pm PDT, Apr 29, Town Almanak, Alabama

# 458:

3:16 pm PDT, Apr 29, Justin Hersey, Georgia
I Feel Like We Should Stop Using Plastic

# 457:

3:05 pm PDT, Apr 29, Dana Rondeau, Canada

# 456:

12:56 pm PDT, Apr 29, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Canada
We simply do not need them!! As the snow melts, plastic bags emerge along our roads, sidewalks, and shorelines - ugly, needless waste that has deadly impacts on wildlife.

# 455:

6:10 am PDT, Apr 29, Name not displayed, Canada

# 454:

5:16 am PDT, Apr 29, Angela MacDonald, Canada
I am on board to help eliminate plastic bags.

# 453:

4:27 pm PDT, Apr 28, Jada Roche, Canada
Let's start teaching people to be responsible for the world around them. Takes 2 seconds to bring your own bags.

# 452:

12:10 pm PDT, Apr 28, Scott Crocker, Canada

# 451:

11:39 am PDT, Apr 28, Zaren White, Canada
Please consider signing this petition. A lot of people bring reusable plastic or cloth shopping bags when they go to the mall or the supermarket but a lot of others don't, preferring to accumulate as many bags as possible, as if they're a hot commodity or something. Banning plastic bags is the direction we need to go in.

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