Word: bags
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...trend has spread: At least 10 U.S. cities have considered or passed some form of ban on the innocent polyethylene bag, from Oakland to Boston, Annapolis to Portland. And, in an effort to seem green, government ministers from England to Australia have promised to wage war on plastic. Reportedly, plastic bags clog up landfills and kill fish; they guzzle oil and energy; they decay far slower than other waste and are difficult to recycle. In fact, the bans are a case of style over substance: Plastic bags are relatively harmless in environmental terms, and where they are a problem...
...problem is that those backing the bans seem to be confused as to the true impact of these flimsy sacks. Alderman Sam Shropshire, sponsor of a bill to ban them in Annapolis, Md., last year (the ban was rejected in Novermber) compares plastic bag use to DDT: “It’s wrong, it’s immoral,” he says, “They’re inundating our environment...
...government recently urged restaurants to halve their portions of rice. Credit Suisse estimates a shortage could cost the Philippines up to 1% of GDP in 2008. Manila resident Evelyn Belo, who waited in line for an hour last week to get a 110-lb. (50 kg) bag to feed her family of five, is feeling the pain. "It's very hard to feed my family already, and now we're worried that the rice will run out. I've started cooking rice porridge to try and use less. Rice is very important to us: it is what we eat. Without...
...night in March, I joined Jeff Motunde, a Nigerian-born Broadway outreach worker, and police officers for a survey of Heathrow's homeless. Those contacted included a man sleeping under his coat, another conspicuously hiding behind an open newspaper, and a woman clutching a duty-free bag who insisted she was waiting for a flight, only to whisper when police were out of earshot, "I can't afford electricity. It's warm here. Please let me stay...
...next at-bat, Rogers took off for second and senior shortstop Jeff Stoeckel stroked a line drive into the glove of Minutemen right fielder Mike Donato. Rogers, who had already made it to second base, was doubled up as Donato’s throw beat him to the bag at first...