Dave Keating
@daveykeats.bsky.social
-assoc prof of strategic comm at Arizona State University
-current editor of Comm Research Reports
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-current editor of Comm Research Reports
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Reposted by Dave Keating
The study uses the patchwork of state and local plastic bag policies across the U.S., plus crowdsourced data from 45k+ shoreline cleanups, to show that plastic bag taxes and fees reduce bag litter by 25-47% in the jurisdictions that pass them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...
Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The study uses the patchwork of state and local plastic bag policies across the U.S., plus crowdsourced data from 45k+ shoreline cleanups, to show that plastic bag taxes and fees reduce bag litter by 25-47% in the jurisdictions that pass them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...