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February 18, 2015
Stakeholders Meeting – City of Tybee Island, GA
Plastic Bag Recycling & Recycling Education
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Overview
• About the Industry
• Tybee Island
• Plastic Bag Recycling: Better Alternative
• Closed-Loop Recycling
• Nearby Plastic Bag Recycling
• Plastic Bag Recycling Education
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Policies Pursued Elsewhere• Unintended Consequences of a Ban
• Conclusion
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About the Industry
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Millions Invested in
Recycling & Recycling
Education
30,900 Jobs in U.S.
700 in Georgia
Provides Recycling and
Manufacturing Jobs
$268 Million in
Capital Expenditures380 Facilities in U.S. $1.3 billion in
annual payroll
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Tybee Island
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1B• In January 2015, ~138k cars came onto the Island
• In contrast, ~290k cars traveled onto Tybee during the month of July 20141
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Plastic Bag Recycling: A Better Alternative
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More than 90% of Americans have access to plastic bag recycling2
• Fastest growing sector of recycling industry
• Over 1 billion pounds of material collected annually3
o NOVOLEX, a member of the APBA, processes 30 million
pounds each year
• Plastic bag recyclers recycle other packaging products as well:
o Bread bags
o Newspaper bags
o Dry cleaning film
o Ziploc bags
o Water, paper towel and toilet paper wraps
• This recycled material is used to create a variety of new products:4 o Playground equipment
o Park benches
o Miles of boardwalk in NY & NJ following Hurricane Sandy
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Closed-Loop Recycling
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Innovativeo Processes used bags, films and wraps in a $22-million, state-
of-the-art facility
• Sustainableo Creates recycled resin that is
cheaper to use than virgin resino Meets needs of companies
choosing to buy products
with higher recycled content
• Responsibleo Takes material out of
curbside recycling
and landfills
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Nearby Plastic Bag Recycling
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Kroger
PublixWalmart
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Plastic Bag Recycling Education
Programs like A Bag’s Life already are hard at workeducating the public and promoting the “3 Rs”: reduce, reuse, recycle.
• Just helped design a programfor Albany, GA – to be launched inFall 2015
• Was asked and agreed to participatein the Keep Georgia Beautiful FoundationExhibitor Showcase in December 2014
• Has worked with Galveston, TX – another
coastal community – for the last two years.o Over 350,000 bags (5,000+ pounds) collected in its first year
o Number of participating schools nearly doubled this year
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www.ABagsLife.com
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Policies Pursued Elsewhere
• January 2015 – The Huntington Beach, CA City Council voted to begin to
repeal their bag ban ordinance
• January 2015 – The Santa Fe, NM City Council announced theineffectiveness of their year-old ban and a need to identify a different pathforward
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December 2014 – Over 800,000 citizens in California signed a petition toplace a statewide bag ban law on hold, and the measure will now go to apublic referendum in November 2016
• December 2014 – The Mayor of Baltimore, MD vetoed a bag banordinance
• April 2014 – Local legislators in Johnson County, IA decided to pursuerecycling strategies in lieu of a plastic bag ban
• November 2013 – Durango, CO voters overturn ban on plastic bags
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Unintended Consequences of a Ban
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• Incentivizes consumers to shop outside of the banregion—an issue for stores located on islands or nearborder regions in particular5
• Often creates an inadvertent increase in shoplifting6
• Reveals no evidence of a reduction in costs tocommunities charged with handling litter and waste
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Conclusion
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This community is
seeking an
organicsolution that will
meet the needs of
everyone
Recycling
exists
and is
effective
Bans have
been
proven
ineffective
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Thank you.
Questions?
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References
1 Facts and figures obtained from the City of Tybee Island on February 17, 2015.2 Bag the Ban website, "NYC Myth vs Facts”
3 2011 National Postconsumer Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Report4 Green Builder: “Deck Durability,” April 2013 5 NCPA: A Survey on the Economic Effects of Los Angeles County’s Plastic Bag Ban 6 Washington City Paper: Safeway: Bag Tax Causes Theft!, Seattle PI: Store Owners Say Plastic Bag Ban CausesMore Shoplifting, and San Leandro Times: Plastic Bag Ban Spurs Shoplifting7 NCPA: Do Bans on Plastic Grocery Bags Save Cities Money?, Dec. 2013
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