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TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plas…: May 28, 10:38pm 35 reviews science, plastic
http://news.therecord.com/article/354044; From the page: "Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures."

How bad is not sorting your plastics for recycling? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Sl…: May 7, 9:03pm 4 reviews environment, plastic, recycle
http://www.slate.com/id/2190734/; From the page: "I've been tossing my used yogurt cups in the recycling bin for years. So imagine my horror when I recently got around to reading the fine print on my city's sanitation guidelines--yogurt cups, it turns out, are supposed to go in the regular trash. Has my inadvertent sorting error ruined many tons' worth of recyclable plastics?"

San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban Interests Other Cities : NPR: Mar 27, 11:38am 2 reviews homemaking, plastic
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89135360; From the page: "· In San Francisco, the age-old question "Paper or plastic?" was answered one year ago this week. The city banned hard-to-recycle plastic bags in grocery stores, and so far, that translates into 5 million fewer plastic bags every month. Now, other cities are considering similar bans, and companies are developing alternatives to disposable bags. San Francisco politician Ross Mirkarimi didn't know just what a stir he was going to cause. On March 27, 2007, the city passed his bill to eventually ban plastic bags from all the city's grocery stores and pharmacies. And now, cities across the United States, including Boston, Portland, Ore., and Phoenix, are considering similar bans. "This has probably been one of the most interesting wildfires of common sense, and I'm delighted and proud that San Francisco was the first city in the United States to have kick-started this," Mirkarimi says."