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How Banning Plastic Bags Could Help New York Mitigate Climate Change

by Climate and Society|May 7th, 2019

New Yorkers use a lot of plastic bags. The city of 8 million goes through 23 billion plastic bags annually. It’s a stat that would’ve seemed unbelievable to me before I moved here until I walked out of a C-Town grocery store with $30 of groceries in six plastic bags.

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