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# It’s In The Bag
- URL: https://goodoil.news/its-in-the-bag/
- Published: 2020-04-04T01:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-03T07:13:02.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: Climate Change, COVID-19, Environment, Health, NZ, NZ Climate change, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19\. Here among the sensible folk at *The BFD* it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard. Never more so than now.

### New York

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ny_tote_bag_the_bfd.jpg)

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### San Francisco

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/sf_tote_bag_the_bfd-1.jpg)

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### Massachusetts

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ma_tote_bag_the_bfd-1.jpg)

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### British Columbia

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bc_tote_bag_the_bfd.jpg)

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### National Environmental Health Association [study](https://www.neha.org/node/60021?ref=goodoil.news)

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/neha_bag_the_bfd.jpg)](https://www.neha.org/node/60021?ref=goodoil.news)

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This is not an exhaustive list, Chicago, New Hampshire, Maine and others are banning reusable bags or delaying bans on single-use bags.

### New Zealand

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/nz_nark_bag_the_bfd.jpg)

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