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| A paper bag artist is set to return to where it all started. |
| Publish Date: 24-Jan-2013 |
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Anyone who has used paper bags before, for whatever reason, will be well aware that they don't have to be just practical, they can be attractive and even fun.
If you find this hard to believe, you need only take a look at the story of Leeds-base
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| Paper bags are to discourage Delhi drivers from drinking before getting behind the wheel. |
| Publish Date: 2-Jan-2013 |
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Drivers in Delhi are being discouraged from drink driving thanks to an ingenious new project involving paper bags.
Some 574 drunk drivers were caught and prosecuted on December 31st, however this technique was deemed not to be effective enough, forc
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| Chico City Council has reopened its pledge to ban plastic bags. |
| Publish Date: 31-Dec-2012 |
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Chico City Council in California is considering its options after a vote in September signalled progress in the pledge to restrict plastic bag usage.
From January 1st, Senate Bill 1219 will come into effect, repealing a law prohibiting local jurisdi
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| The Emerald Lake elves delivered gift bags to rehab residents. |
| Publish Date: 27-Dec-2012 |
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A kind group of friends from Union County, New Jersey have delivered gift bags filled with presents to the residents of a nearby rehab centre to ensure they have an equally enjoyable festive period.
Known as the Emerald Lake elves, they include loca
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| Children in Brownsville, Texas are being given paper gift bags for Christmas. |
| Publish Date: 24-Dec-2012 |
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Children in Brownsville, Texas are being given an extra special surprise this Christmas thanks to a charitable group.
The Children and Adult Relief Effort organisation in the city has been hard at work filling paper gift bags with toys and treats fo
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| Cupertino city is preparing to discuss a plastic bag ban. |
| Publish Date: 21-Dec-2012 |
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Cupertino in California is preparing to put an end to its single-use plastic bags.
The city is preparing to talk about banning the bag and will be holding two public meetings to inform residents more about the proposals, Mercury News reports.
On Ja
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| A Bible group from South Carolina is spreading Christmas cheer with gift bags. |
| Publish Date: 19-Dec-2012 |
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A Bible group from Charleston, South Carolina is spreading Christmas cheer to those incarcerated over the holidays with the help of gift bags.
The Jailbirds, who are a group of women from Bible Center Church, have spent the last two years visiting f
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| Tennessee volunteers are filling gift bags for homeless veterans. |
| Publish Date: 18-Dec-2012 |
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Volunteers have been filling gift bags for hundreds of homeless veterans in Bristol, Tennessee.
A truck arrived on December 17th at the National Guard Armory in the city and was packed high with around 400 large gift bags, each destined for those st
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| A youth group in Maryland has prepared gift bags for children. |
| Publish Date: 17-Dec-2012 |
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A youth group in Maryland has been busy preparing gift bags for children.
In the city of Salisbury, St John's Lutheran Church has been providing presents for children in the area through the Salvation Army for around 15 years.
This weekend the
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| Families in Vancouver are preparing gift bags for terminally ill children. |
| Publish Date: 14-Dec-2012 |
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Families in Lyncburg, Vancouver have taken inspiration from their own personal struggles and decided to offer festive gift bags for terminally ill local children.
The Norman and Ellis families told WDBJ7.com that this time of year can be difficult f
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| Polk County is giving reusable gift bags to its homeless population. |
| Publish Date: 13-Dec-2012 |
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Polk County, Florida is giving back to its homeless community by offering them a Christmas present to remember.
Resident Katie Newman told Polk County Itemizer-Observer that she discussed an idea to help those without permanent accommodation with he
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| A Connecticut charity is donating gift bags and bedding to families in need this weekend. |
| Publish Date: 11-Dec-2012 |
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This weekend in Connecticut the Bridgeport Rescue Mission is bringing warmth and comfort to hundreds of people as part of its Sleeping Bag and Bedtime Bag Give-Away.
Held at the mission’s Nehemiah Commission building in Bridgeport on Saturday
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| The Salvation Army in Massachusetts has been spreading holiday cheer with gift bags. |
| Publish Date: 6-Dec-2012 |
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The Salvation Army in Massachusetts has been spreading holiday cheer with gift bags filled with food.
During Thanksgiving, adults and elderly people in Cambridge and Somerville who could not afford their own feasts were treated to a full turkey dinn
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| Toronto families in need are to receive charity food gift bags. |
| Publish Date: 5-Dec-2012 |
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Families in Toronto who are finding it difficult to make ends meet could receive a helping hand, thanks to a scheme underway at the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Some 75 hard-working volunteers are currently putting together gift bags of food, which will l
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| The Office For the Aging is preparing holiday gift bags to give to solitary seniors. |
| Publish Date: 4-Dec-2012 |
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The Office For the Aging (OFA) in Chautauqua County, New York is preparing for its annual Christmas gift bag campaign.
Holiday Bags for Solitary Seniors, as the scheme is called, is a project run by OFA staff and community members and aims to give p
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| Disabled volunteers put together gift bags for shelters in Walnut Creek, California. |
| Publish Date: 3-Dec-2012 |
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Disabled volunteers have been hard at work putting together gift bags for those in need in Walnut Creek, California.
Working on behalf of the non-profit organisation Las Trampas, members stocked up white paper bags with hotel-sized shampoo, conditio
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| Richmond State Hospital is searching for gift bags for its patients. |
| Publish Date: 27-Nov-2012 |
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A hospital in Indiana, US is continuing its holiday gift bag programme, as it seeks to give presents to its patients.
While many people are preparing for the festive period, Richmond State Hospital wants locals to consider those less fortunate than
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| Brookline, Massachusetts is preparing for its plastic bag ban. |
| Publish Date: 27-Nov-2012 |
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Brookline, Massachusetts is preparing for a ban on non-recyclable plastic bags, after a motion was passed earlier this month.
The prohibition would affect retail establishments larger than 2,500 square feet or where there are three businesses in tow
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| A food bank scheme in British Columbia is filling paper bags to give to charity. |
| Publish Date: 23-Nov-2012 |
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Brown paper bags are being filled up in time for Christmas as part of a food bank scheme in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The city is helping its in-need families during the holiday season, with the Quality Foods supermarket and Black Press newspaper g
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| Corvallis, in Oregon, is running a bag design competition to celebrate recent policy. |
| Publish Date: 22-Nov-2012 |
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Corvallis city in Oregon is launching a bag design competition to accompany the introduction of its first single-use bag policy.
Passed by the city council on July 2nd, the ban will prevent most retailers from distributing single-use plastic checkou
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| Volunteers in Iowa have been making gift bags for soldiers' children this Christmas. |
| Publish Date: 20-Nov-2012 |
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Volunteers in Iowa have been hard at work making Christmas gift bags for children who have a parent deployed overseas.
Residents of Cedar Falls gathered at the AmericInn this week to stuff teddy bears, WCF Courier reports, as part of a national effo
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| A Sunday school in Wisconsin has been decorating paper bags for inmates. |
| Publish Date: 19-Nov-2012 |
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A Sunday school in Wisconsin has been giving back to the local community with an unusual paper bag project.
In the city of Racine the St Paul Missionary Baptist Church's younger members have been hard at work decorating brown bags with Christmas
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| Paper bags have been used to make memorial candles in the US. |
| Publish Date: 16-Nov-2012 |
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Hundreds of volunteers gathered in Maryland last weekend to turn plain paper bags into illuminating memorial candles.
Some 220 people filled thousands of the bags with sand and candles for three separate illumination events to pay tribute to the dea
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| A charitable group is sending special gift bags to women's shelters. |
| Publish Date: 15-Nov-2012 |
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A charitable group in south-west Calgary is working hard to prepare special gift bags for local women's shelters.
Sue McElhanney, founder of the All 4 Women Society, has set up a project entitled Purposeful Giving For Abused Women in your Commun
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| Volunteers in the US are sending Christmas gift bags to soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
| Publish Date: 14-Nov-2012 |
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Volunteers in the US are sending Christmas gift bags to soldiers serving abroad as part of Help Bag Project Rudolph.
The Archibald family are hosting a special fundraising event at Burley Junior High School, in Indiana, to provide presents for those
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| A newspaper is helping with a Thanksgiving paper bag food drive in Santa Maria. |
| Publish Date: 9-Nov-2012 |
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A newspaper in Santa Barbara, US is giving away paper bags today as part of a local food drive.
The Santa Maria Times is handing out free paper grocery bags to readers so they can then fill them with foods such as canned meat, peanut butter and whea
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| The Jefferson County Humane Society is fundraising for cats with gift bags. |
| Publish Date: 8-Nov-2012 |
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The Jefferson County Humane Society is using gift bags to help fundraise for local cats.
On Sunday November 11th, a major fundraiser is being held in Wintersville to help pay towards the county humane officer, the housing and feeding of cats at th
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| The Taste of Home Cooking Show is offering tasty gift bags to visitors. |
| Publish Date: 7-Nov-2012 |
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The Taste of Home Cooking Show is preparing for a visit to Halifax, US and is armed with plenty of treats to entice attendees.
On November 8th it arrives at Halifax Community College's The Centre, offering everything from breakfast drinks to gou
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| Celebrity event gift bags can be a great promotional opportunity for businesses. |
| Publish Date: 5-Nov-2012 |
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Celebrity event gift bags handed out at film festivals, award ceremonies and charity balls are a brilliant way to appeal to an A-list market.
Adding in vouchers or a product to these bags can be a great promotional opportunity according to Toronto h
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| Salem's Meals on Wheels scheme begins its gift project this week. |
| Publish Date: 2-Nov-2012 |
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Salem's Meals on Wheels (MoW) scheme is preparing for its annual Holiday Gift Project.
The 22nd anniversary encourages people to donate gift bags to housebound elderly people, helping to brighten up the festive period for them.
As well as prese
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| Volunteers from Sioux City celebrated Charity Gift Bag Day last weekend. |
| Publish Date: 1-Nov-2012 |
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Volunteers from across Sioux City, Iowa were hard at work this weekend as they celebrated Charity Gift Bag Day.
The event originally began 11 years ago when one of the owners of Heirloom Creations in Sioux Falls, Sara Snuggerud, chose to give p
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| Artistic cards are to be included in this year's Country Music Association Awards gift bags. |
| Publish Date: 30-Oct-2012 |
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This year's Country Music Association (CMA) Awards in Nashville is set to be an exciting event, not only for the audience but also those nominated.
Stars heading to the 46th annual event can look forward to exciting gift bags, which include a se
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| Students from Teesside are bringing Christmas gift bags to Romania. |
| Publish Date: 26-Oct-2012 |
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Caring Teesside students are launching an appeal for Christmas presents, money and donations before they embark on a trip to Romania.
Health, social care and childcare students from Redcar and Cleveland College are preparing to head to the country t
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| Geelong is celebrating Brown Paper Bag Day with charitable donations. |
| Publish Date: 16-Oct-2012 |
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Geelong in Victoria, Australia is celebrating Brown Paper Bag Day today.
The city, citizens of whom usually carries its lunch in small paper bags, are being urged to support food charities by donating the equivalent of what they might spend on their
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| Environmentalists in Oregon are calling for people to use reusable shopping bags. |
| Publish Date: 28-Sep-2012 |
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Environmental campaigners in Oregon are encouraging shoppers to either buy paper bags for a small fee or bring their own reusable carrier bags with them.
Eugene City Council is poised to ban thin, single-use plastic bags, The Register Guard reports.
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| San Francisco shoppers are preparing to switch from plastic to paper bags. |
| Publish Date: 27-Sep-2012 |
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Residents of San Francisco are preparing to switch from plastic to paper bags.
From October 1st shoppers will have to bring their own reusable bags or pay for paper bags, according to the city's new Checkout Bag Ordinance, which requires all ret
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| Volunteers in Bangladesh have been promoting paper bags. |
| Publish Date: 26-Sep-2012 |
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Paper bags were promoted in Bangladesh this week by volunteers keen to dissuade people from using plastic carrier bag alternatives.
Beside the Saphalyam Complex at Palayam in Thiruvananthapuram passers-by and motorists paused to see a crooked tree s
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| A community baby shower in Texas saw a huge number of gift bag donations. |
| Publish Date: 24-Sep-2012 |
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A community baby shower in Texas, US recently saw a huge number of gift bag donations.
As part of the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance at the Fort Bliss Army Volunteer Corps centre, they got together with a group which provides free clot
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| British shoppers are happy to pay plastic bag charges to reduce usage. |
| Publish Date: 21-Sep-2012 |
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British shoppers have revealed that they are happy to pay for plastic bags, as they believe that this would cut down on the number they use.
The Liberal Democrats are set to back calls for a levy on these bags, in order to reduce the environmental
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| UK retailers are leading the debate on European waste. |
| Publish Date: 18-Sep-2012 |
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UK retailers are leading the fight against environmental waste in the industry with a conference in Brussels today.
Major retailers from across Europe will be demonstrating how to tackle sustainability challenges, such as how to cut back on energy u
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| An Irish sweet shop owner has launched a lucky bag competition. |
| Publish Date: 14-Sep-2012 |
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A quick-thinking Irish businessman has launched a Willy Wonka-style competition by putting a golden ticket for a football final inside one of its paper bags.
Enda Heneghan, who owns Auntie Nellie's traditional sweet shop in Co Donegal, has hidde
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| The goody bags given out at New York Fashion Week have been criticised. |
| Publish Date: 13-Sep-2012 |
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While party bags at high profile events can be a luxurious item, recipients can often become disheartened if the standard of freebies falls.
This is what has happened at New York Fashion Week, according to DNA.info, which argues that the usually exc
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| The contents of the MTV VMA gift bags have been revealed. |
| Publish Date: 6-Sep-2012 |
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The MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) is fast approaching, with the likes of Rihanna, Katy Perry and One Direction all making their way to Los Angeles for this year's impressive event.
Taking place on September 6th, it will see some of the music indu
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| The city of Madurai is readying itself for a ban on plastic bags under 40 microns. |
| Publish Date: 31-Aug-2012 |
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The Madurai Corporation's ban on plastic bags and related products under 40 microns comes into effect on September 1st 2012 in India.
This marks a huge step forward in the way in which the city tackles its problem of plastic waste, which has bee
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| Vietnam has revealed sweeping plans to cut the usage of plastic bags in the country. |
| Publish Date: 31-Aug-2012 |
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Vietnam has announced that it will attempt to reduce the country's dependency on plastic bags by 40 per cent by 2015, as it looks to make dramatic changes to the way it deals with this problematic waste.
The bulk of the reduction will occur in s
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| Mitt Romney, now the official Republican presidential candidate, will no doubt be using branded bags as he begins campaigning to become the most powerful man in the world. |
| Publish Date: 31-Aug-2012 |
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With Mitt Romney now confirmed as the official GOP candidate for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, his team is readying itself with a marketing campaign to send home his message.
As current incumbent Barack Obama kno
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| California is leading the charge in the fight against plastic bags, with the state set to make them illegal. |
| Publish Date: 31-Aug-2012 |
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California is setting an exemplary standard in curbing its dependency on plastic bags, which the rest of the world could do with emulating.
It was recently reported that within the state, slowly but surely, everyone of its cities is taking important
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| Asda has set up grottos in some of its stores across the country, as it gets ready for Christmas earlier than normal. |
| Publish Date: 30-Aug-2012 |
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A prominent British supermarket chain has introduced Santa's grottos to some of its stores, four months ahead of Christmas.
Asda has opened up the grottos in chains across the country 117 days before one of the most popular days of the year actu
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| A year after an order was signed to ban plastic bags, the City of Pasay gets ready to it coming into force. |
| Publish Date: 30-Aug-2012 |
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The City of Pasay in the Philippines is readying itself for a plastic bag ban, which comes into effect in September.
However, there will not be a crackdown on stores and businesses that have not yet made a successful transition to a plastic bag free
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| A shopping bag design contest has been given the go ahead on Bainbridge Island. |
| Publish Date: 28-Aug-2012 |
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Local artists and creative residents on Bainbridge Island are being given the chance to design their own personalised shopping bags.
The local City Council has approved plans to spread awareness of the approaching plastic bag ban, with a contest sta
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| Shoppers in Leicester are celebrating local businesses with a new campaign. |
| Publish Date: 24-Aug-2012 |
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Shoppers in Leicester are looking to independent retailers to entice them to mark the I Love Local Shops campaign.
The Leicester Mercury is focusing on boutiques and independent shops at present, especially concentrating on a cluster of shops named
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