date:Jun 19, 2013
at bans bags, said Ron Fong, president and CEO of the California Grocers Association.
Some environmentalists are pushing for New York to ban plastic grocery sacks as well.
Such measures are needed because bags that drift into waterways harm birds and fish, who often mistake little bits of plastic for morsels of food, said Kirsten James, science and policy director for environmental group Heal the Bay.
Researchers have identified film from sacks as a major source of the plastic swirling around