"It's hugely frustrating,'' Gold said. " A lot of us thought San Francisco was showing us the way to change. But these are well-funded industries and the stakes are high." Stephen Joseph, a lawyer for the Save the Replica
handbags , a plastics industry group, said bag manufacturers took action because they were fed up with exaggerations and "myths" about the environmental harm they caused. Plastic bags have been demonized by environmentalists, he said, but his group cited studies showing that p...
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