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Would You Like a Bag (Ban) with That? China, which threw global plastic recycling markets into disarray in 2018 with its Green Sword policy banning plastic waste imports, has been ratcheting up domestic regulations to reign in single-use plastics. In January of 2020, China’s National Reform Development Commission announced a stringent policy for a nationwide plastic bag ban by 2022. China is not alone. Bans and taxes on plastic bags are spreading around the globe and they might soon come to your neighborhood, if they haven’t already.  A few decades ago they did not exist at all, but now plastic bags sit at the register of seemingly every store in the world. Their proliferation is easy to understand, plastic bags are very resilient and inexpensive for consumers. These qualities also make them an environmental menace. In the Ocean Conservancy’s annual International Coastal Cleanups plastic bags have consistently ranked in the top ten of most commonly found types of plastic pol

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