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Medil Reports features news that a Lake County, Illinois task force wants to reduce plastic bag waste throughout the state, but will attempt to do so without banning plastic bags in retail stores.
Several cities have addressed plastic bag waste, with San Francisco being the first to propose a ban. Chicago has pursued banning plastic bags as recently as last May, particularly because the city does not provide a program to recycle them.
The Illinois General Assembly developed a pilot program to determine the costs for retailers of plastic bag recycling. The results will be studied sometime next month.
For locations to recycle plastic bags in your area, use the Earth 911 recycling locator search.
