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- Do Plastic Bag Bans Actually Work? - Study Finds
The policies also worked best in places that needed them most Areas with high levels of plastic bag litter before implementing policies saw the biggest improvements, while places that already had low plastic bag litter showed minimal change In high-litter areas, plastic bags made up about 13 2 percent of collected items before policies took
- Banning plastic bags works to limit shoreline litter, study finds
They found areas that adopted plastic bag policies saw a 25% to 47% reduction in the share of plastic bag litter on shorelines, when compared with areas without policies The longer a policy was
- Plastic bag bans and fees work to curb litter, study says
Co-authors environmental economist Anna Papp and Kimberly Oremus, a marine science and policy professor at the University of Delaware, found that the number of plastic bags collected as shoreline litter in places with bag policies dropped by at least 25%, and up to 47% over six years than in locations that did not have regulations
- Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on . . .
Plastic pollution has become a global problem, constituting the majority of marine litter, threatening wildlife, and damaging ecosystems Among the most common and troublesome categories of marine litter are thin plastic shopping bags, which often evade waste management by floating away in the wind and can entangle or block the digestion of marine animals
- Efficacy of plastic bag bans | UDaily - University of Delaware
For instance, they found more robust impacts from state-level policies than town-level policies, with fees appearing to reduce litter even more than bans, though more study is needed to understand why Another finding was that the bag bans and fees were most effective in places where the plastic bag litter problem was more severe to begin with
- Plastic bag bans help: Study finds up to 47% drop in . . .
Papp, the study's lead author, said the plastic collected in shoreline cleanups can serve as a proxy for the total amount of plastic litter in the local marine or aquatic environment
- Do plastic bag bans and fees work? A new study says policies . . .
More than 600 bag policies, along with records from more than 45,000 shoreline cleanups between 2017 and 2023, were reviewed by researchers to see whether implementing bans or fees on plastic bags
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