cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11906510

It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering in a wave of anti-plastic legislation from coast to coast.

But in the years after California seemingly kicked its plastic grocery sack habit, material recovery facilities and environmental activists noticed a peculiar trend: Plastic bag waste by weight was increasing to unprecedented levels.

According to a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California the year the law was passed. By 2022, however, the tonnage of discarded plastic bags had skyrocketed to 231,072 — a 47% jump. Even accounting for an increase in population, the number rose from 4.08 tons per 1,000 people in 2014 to 5.89 tons per 1,000 people in 2022.

The problem, it turns out, was a section of the law that allowed grocery stores and large retailers to provide thicker, heavier-weight plastic bags to customers for the price of a dime.

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“Everybody thinks if you're an actor, and certainly if you're an actor and on a television series, you must be doing very well,” Koenig said. “Well, I was barely making more than minimum the first season. The second season I was on the show … I had a contract. I was paid a week's wage whether I worked a day or a week. So I made a little bit more. Whereas I made $10,000 for the whole year in 1967, I made $11,000 in 1968. Well, that'll only go so far.”

the chemicals may interfere with the body's hormones, raise cholesterol levels, affect fertility and increase the risk of certain cancers, according to the EPA."

2021 NYTimes global warming FAQ (recommended by XKCD). "Definitive answers to the big questions." ( By Julia Rosen. Her research involved studying ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica. )

Progress seems to be stalled. Like people at a party's last-minute guzzling?

Production finished in 2023, expected release 2024. Starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel and Forest Whitaker.

Specialty, 1959. Later covered by the Beatles in 1966, along with 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy'.

He was a stylin pioneer out of NOLA that got copied a lot. And a bad boy.

Other Williams hits: Short, Fat Fannie ; Boney Maronie

Review of 2023 book: How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball. ISBN9781529095999