Mar 31 2007
San Francisco bans plastic shopping bags
San Francisco has become the first American city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets and chemists’ shops - attracting the applause of environmentalists but also scepticism from business owners and many heartland Americans who feel that the quintessential “Left Coast” city has once again dived off the deep end.
San Francisco’s board of supervisors - the equivalent of a city council - voted 10 to 1 in favour of the ban, which would oblige supermarkets with annual turnover of more than $2m (£1m) to implement the change within six months and pharmacies with more than five outlets to do so within a year.
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San Francisco bans plastic shopping bags
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