Today every positive move towards curbing pollution counts and whenever I hear about any such development I like to share it with you all. After a ban on plastic bags in China, Israel, Australia (Melbourne) and San Francisco, it’s now Los Angeles’ turn. The city dwellers want to green-up their homes, offices and play grounds by completely shunning plastic bags by 2010. The positive move is now going to materialize with the coming in effect of Assembly bill (AB 2058) next month. The latter will addresses recycling issues and a fee for plastic bags. This means the new legislative measure will take care of the 2.3 billion bags consumed by LA’s population. Until now, there was a voluntary program residing in the city which involved encouraging customers to opt for reusable bags (which sums up to 5% of entire lot).

But as it turns out the move is not enough to tackle the problem of growing numbers of plastic waste. Besides plastic, a ban on Styrofoam will also be implemented by 2009 at all city-owned facilities (including LAX). The enormous Styrofoam and plastic waste piled up in LA contributes to direct pollution of Pacific Ocean owning to the city’s prime location. After hearing all this good news from Melbourne, San Francisco and now Los Angeles too, I whole heartedly feel others should also embrace such bans, especially India where plastic nuisance has choked her major rivers like Yamuna and is daily adding on to its pollution scale.

Via: inhabitat