Save The Bay Blog

By Allison Chan, Policy Intern It’s a sunny weekend morning and you decide to head out to do some hiking along the Bay shoreline. As you stroll through the brush and marshlands, you commune with nature, you enjoy the sprawling bay views… and you encounter scattered plastic bags wedged between rocks and clinging to vegetation? [...]

By Laura Reinhard, Policy Associate Watch out for higher prices in your grocery bills — maybe plastic bags will end up costing stores even more as plastic bag industry lawyers and lobbyists fly around the country squashing local initiatives. Seattle’s groundbreaking proposal to place a 20-cent fee on all single-use bags was defeated Tuesday in [...]

by Amy Alton, Communications Associate We got some national attention last night when ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson featured our “The Bay vs. the Bag” video during a segment on the negative environmental impact of plastic and paper single-use bags and the steps cities across the nation are taking to reduce pervasive bag pollution [...]

by Amy Alton, Communications Associate The San Francisco Weekly published this article a few weeks ago about plastic bags and whether or not banning their usage is the proper way to clean up the environment and end global warming. As the debate between paper versus plastic heats up, it seemed appropriate to share with you [...]