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Beginning Saturday, New Zealand will become the first country to ban the thin plastic bags that supermarket customers use to collect their fruit and vegetables.

Celebrations in a beachside California city will soon have to take place without an iconic, single-use party favour: balloons.

Canada's ban on the manufacture and import for sale of some plastic items, including grocery bags and straws, has taken effect.

The move will affect single-use plastic bags, takeout containers, straws, stir sticks, cutlery and six-pack rings used to hold cans and bottles together.

Canadians will need to find alternatives for plastic straws and grocery bags by the end of the year as the federal government puts the final motions in place to ban some single-use plastics.

Tim Hortons is ending the practice of double cupping hot drinks, a move the fast food restaurant says will eliminate hundreds of millions of cups from landfills each year.

Campaigners hail move against environmentally damaging bags though small-business concerns mean many will remain

Vancouver is bringing in bans on the use of plastic bags, straws and other single-use items, while introducing what the city believes to be a first-of-its-kind fee for disposable cups in the country.

The province's environment minister thinks the Trudeau government's offer to put carbon-tax revenue toward school renovations is patronizing: 'We're big boys and girls.'

In the growing war against the environmental impact of plastic, Florida seems to be taking a giant step backwards by pushing legislation that would stop local authorities from banning plastic straws, a move that has, not surprisingly, angered many environmentalists.

Canada's slow-growing petrochemical industry is headed for its biggest surge of expansion spending in five years in 2019, thanks in large part to incentive programs by federal and provincial governments.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna's campaign against plastic straws is fodder for her Twitter critics this week after she twice posted incorrectly that local Ottawa restaurants have banned them entirely.

Huge sculptures of sea life are dotted about New Orleans' aquarium and zoo , all of them made from plastic trash that washed ashore. There's a great white shark made partly of bottle caps and beach toys and a jellyfish made mostly of cut-up water bottles.

In a bid to further cut down on waste, eco-conscious San Francisco is expected to join Seattle in outlawing plastic straws used to suck down Mai Taisand slurp up bubble tea.

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