San Francisco Bag Fee

• S.F.'S 17-Cent Solution: Stop throwing away grocery bags, save millions - [submitted version] Op-ed by Paul Goettlich / SF Chronicle 24jan2005
      This op-ed is in response to an article by Suzanne Herel in the Chronicle on 20 Nov 2004.

• San Francisco 17¢ Bag Fee Resolution No. 007-04-COE (draft 2004)

• Costs Associated With Paper and Plastic Bags - Robert Haley / Department of the Environment / City and County of San Francisco 17nov04

• If the Plastic Bags Delivered with the San Francisco Chronicle in 1 Year Were Piled onto a Football Field . . .???

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• Golden Bay 1st Community To Be Free of Plastic Bags - Golden Bay Bag Ladies (New Zealand) 3jan2005

• A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific central gyre - Marine Pollution Bulletin, v.42, n.12, Dec01
      This is the study stating that there's 6 times more plastic than plankton floating in the Pacific

• Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere - Captain Charles Moore / Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03
      Get a graphic image of the problem with this well-written article.

• Get Plastic Out Of Your Diet - Paul Goettlich / Living Nutrition magazine Spring (April) 2004
      The goal of this article is to explain how plastic gets into our food and our lives, and how poorly it is regulated

• More articles by Paul Goettlich

• More plastic articles on Mindfully.org