ApocaDocs: U.N. environment chief urges global ban on plastic bags

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Posted Thu Jun 11 2009: from McClatchy Newspapers:


	U.N. environment chief urges global ban on plastic bags http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1244731883 Single-use plastic bags, a staple of American life, have got to go, the United Nations' top environmental official said Monday. Although recycling bags is on the rise in the United States , an estimated 90 billion thin bags a year, most used to handle produce and groceries, go unrecycled. They were the second most common form of litter after cigarette butts at the 2008 International Coastal Cleanup Day sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy, a marine environmental group... According to the report, "Plastic, the most prevalent component of marine debris, poses hazards because it persists so long in the ocean, degrading into tinier and tinier bits that can be consumed by the smallest marine life at the base of the food web."

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'Doc Jim says:

Kind of like Zeno's paradox about the arrow in flight.