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Grand Canyon park bans sale of plastic bottles
TheChronicleHerald.ca
(AP) — Disposable plastic water bottles soon won't be sold at the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service announced Feb. 6 that it has approved a plan to eliminate the sale of the bottles within 30 days. They make up about 20 per cent of the park's ...
Grand Canyon visitors won't be able to buy water in disposable containersExaminer.com
The Grand Canyon Bans Sales of Bottled WaterTIME
Grand Canyon to ban bottled water salesReuters

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Cities' sewers are flush with junk
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Just because something's disposable doesn't mean it's flushable. Travis Iverson held two cellphones he and partner Nate Behlen removed from an Edina sewer line last week. Objects like this trap other debris and lead to clogs. Listen up, people.

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Young people show support for bill on disposable-bag fee
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
By Sarah Zoellick Four hundred plastic grocery bags were staked to the state Capitol lawn along Beretania Street on Thursday to call attention to a Senate bill that would impose a 10-cent fee on the disposable sacks and their paper counterparts and ...

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