Sentence examples for bag ban from inspiring English sources

Their plastic bag ban was not the result of years of campaigning.

Residents also credit the bag ban with making Westport residents greener in many different ways.

Over all, more than 50 California cities have passed some bag ban ordinance (not all have taken effect), and many others are considering one.

A third community that has enacted a bag ban, Fort Stockton, is in an oil and ranching area in remote West Texas.

After Austin, Tex., passed a bag ban earlier this year and with Dallas considering one, State Representative Drew Springer, a Republican, introduced the Shopping Bag Freedom Act in the Legislature.

Two other trial runs, in Toronto and in Austin, Tex., also went well enough that Whole Foods executives felt confident broadening the plastic bag ban to all its stores.

"The city of Los Angeles doesn't have a ban but Los Angeles county does," says Ted Duboise, who runs the Plastic Bag Ban Report website.

I live in San Francisco, where a local plastic-bag ban and paper-bag charge went into effect in 2012.

"It didn't take people very long to accommodate at all," said Dick Lilly, manager for waste prevention in Seattle, where a plastic-bag ban took effect last summer.

L.A. starts 2014 with its new plastic-bag ban.

-- A statewide plastic-bag ban is put on hold by a referendum.