Los Angeles poised to bin plastic bags for good

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City on the verge of banning stores from distributing single-use plastic grocery bags

Los Angeles is on the brink of becoming the largest city in the US to ban plastic grocery bags, which officials say will prevent about two million single-use bags being distributed next year. The City...

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