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Plastic Industry Bullies Sabotage 12-Year-Old’s School Project
Plastic Bag Industry Threatened By 12-Year-Old
Kate Houston - July 3, 2012
A twelve-year-old’s school project has scared the pants off the Illinois plastics industry. The industry feels so threatened by Abby Goldberg’s efforts to ban single-use plastic bags in her hometown of Grayslake, IL, that they have lobbied for (and successfully passed) a bill banning bag bans in Illinois. No city, with the lone exception of Chicago, will be able to “regulate the collection, recycling, sale, or use of plastic carryout bags.” Read More >>
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