Research on Plastic Bags

Becky Chamberlin wrote a series of white papers to the ESB this week on plastic bag bans.  They were very good.  I encourage everyone to take a look at them.  They are PDF files, stored on my google drive.  Click to see the document.  You can download them if you want.

Part 1: Plastic bags as a litter source

Part 2: Plastic bags as a municipal waste source

Part 3: Plastic bags as greenhouse gas generators

Part 4: Implementation and unintended consequences

Becky took her source material from scientific and academic sources, and shied away from sources from the plastics industry and the environmentalists. 

We will be sharing these with the County Council too.