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This cartoon also passes the craap test like the rest, it was made by Mark Lynch, and has little to no errors in it. It wants to inform us of what can happen to our civilization soon if we don't start banning single use plastic.

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Once again you have to click on the link for the actual cartoon to pop up, it is a cartoon trying to persuade us not to use single use plastic, and it is made by Seddon Mike.

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This picture was made by Mark Lynch, you must first click on the link to see the picture, it is here to inform us on what we should do to prevent single use plastic from hurting the environment in the future.

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Single use plastic bags By toons | Nature Cartoon | TOONPOOL

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Here's Why Plastic Is SO MUCH Worse Than You Think!

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It is not said when this article was made, but this article was made by Jennifer L. Betts. It has little to no Grammar, or spelling mistakes, and this article is here to teach people why Banning single use plastic bags would be more harmful than good for the environment.

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This Article was created on April 30, 2015, and the author of this article is Michael Gonchar, there are no grammar, or spelling mistakes in this article, and this article agrees with my claim. This article is here to inform us, and teach us.

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How many plastic bags do we briefly use and then throw away every week? We get our takeout food, drugstore purchases and clothing bagged, and our groceries double-bagged. All those single-use plastic bags may be cheap for consumers, but their costs add up. Plastic bags end up stuffing landfills, clogging sewers, polluting animal habitats and even fluttering in trees for years. California became the first state to ban plastic bags in 2014, although that law has been temporarily put on hold, and dozens of cities or counties have either banned the use of plastic bags or imposed a fee for their use.

Should single-use plastic shopping bags be banned in your state or community?

New York City is one of those places that has been considering a citywide ban. In the November 2014 article "New York City Council Hearing on Fee for Bags Becomes Heated," Matt Flegenheimer writes:

For years, the plastic bag has doubled as a sort of urban tumbleweed, sweeping across New York City sidewalks and encroaching ominously on its waterways, clustering on subway tracks and drifting airborne to the tree limbs of residential blocks.

Now the bags have divided a City Council that has found little about which to disagree. On Wednesday, a hearing grew heated as lawmakers considered what seemed to be a simple question: Are plastic bags a problem to be solved, as environmental advocates have long argued, or a necessary, and relatively harmless, part of city life?

The debate centered on a proposal to charge 10 cents for each single-use checkout bag at retail and grocery stores, in an effort to encourage customers to bring their own. The charge would also apply to paper bags, the bill's sponsors said, because they are more expensive for businesses to purchase. (A ban on plastics alone could lead customers to switch exclusively to paper, harming the businesses, according to the bill's supporters.)

Councilman Brad Lander of Brooklyn, a Democrat, one of the proposal's co-sponsors, suggested that the specter of a fee - or, as opponents have called it, a tax - was in fact the legislation's strength.

"People don't want to pay for something that used to be free," he said before a hearing of the Council's committee on sanitation and solid waste management. "That's why this bill works."

The de Blasio administration expressed an openness to the bill on Wednesday, saying it was "supportive of efforts to reduce single-use carryout bags" and noting their "negative environmental impacts."

At the hearing, Kathryn Garcia, the city's sanitation commissioner, said the department collected an average of 1,700 tons of plastic bags per week. It costs $12.5 million annually to dispose of the materials outside the city. Ms. Garcia said the bags threatened marine animals that often mistook them for a food source, and could jam sorting machines at recycling facilities.

But opponents - including some activists, council members from both parties and plastic bag manufacturers - have framed the proposed fee as a regressive tax, most likely to affect low-income and minority communities. Critics noted that plastic bags were often reused, and many argued that they rarely encountered bags on the street. Some called on the city to focus instead on litter prevention and recycling campaigns.

Students: Read the entire article, then tell us ...

- Should single-use plastic shopping bags be banned in your state or community? Why?

- Do you think lightweight shopping bags are wasteful and polluting? Or do you think they are worth their weight in the benefits they provide to daily life?

- Do you think imposing a fee, or tax, for using plastic bags, as Washington has done, is a regressive tax? In other words, does it hurt poor people more? Or is it just good governance, creating an incentive for everyone to bring his or her own bags instead of constantly getting new bags after each shopping trip?

- Do you think about your use of plastic bags? Do you ever take your own bags, tell a store clerk you don't need a bag or save your old bags for reuse?

Students 13 and older are invited to comment below. Please use only your first name. For privacy policy reasons, we will not publish student comments that include a last name.

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The person who created this cartoon is Mark Lynch, this cartoon is about single use plastic and it is trying to show why single use plastic is bad, and how in the future their might be more plastic than fish in the ocean.

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This Article was made in 2020, it agrees with my claim,  it is written by Amy Hackney Blackwell, the article is here to inform, and teach, it has no spelling mistakes.

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About Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies focuses on the physical and social aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, state and province portals form research centers around issues covering earth systems, global change, land and water use, populations, legislation, and more. Portal overviews provide essential information, supplemented by academic journals, news, case studies, conferences, statistics, and rich multimedia.

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The Article talks about how a team in Greece tries to clean up it's shore line of plastic, this article has no grammar mistakes, it is written by JOANNA KAKISSIS, in November 25, 2018. This article to here to inform. It agrees with my claim.

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In Greece, divers calling themselves the "garbage collectors of the sea" are fishing out plastic waste from the eastern Mediterranean. Now the EU will lend a hand by banning single-use plastics.

SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST:

The European Union wants to ban single-use plastics, like straws and plastic bags, by 2021. They often end up in the sea, especially in Greece, which has the longest coastline in the EU. Joanna Kakissis reports.

UNIDENTIFIED DIVERS: (Speaking Greek).

JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: This is what it sounds like when divers are trying to heave a big bag of trash out of the sea. They've got a huge tire, a shopping cart and lots of plastic. These 12 divers have volunteered to clean the seabed off the Greek island of Poros. George Sarelakos leads the expedition.

GEORGE SARELAKOS: You know, it makes me upset seeing that the seabed includes everything. There's everything inside there. Like, the whole seabed is covered by litter. Plastics are everywhere.

KAKISSIS: The World Economic Forum warned earlier this year that there will be more plastic than fish in the world's seas in about 30 years' time. The World Wide Fund for Nature, known as the WWF, estimates that 95 percent of the waste in the Mediterranean Sea and on its beaches is plastic.

ACHILLEAS PLITHARAS: It makes you feel very sad and, at the same time, very angry.

KAKISSIS: Achilleas Plitharas is a policy campaigner in the WWF's Greece office in Athens.

PLITHARAS: The plastics debate has the same, more or less, conflicts and barriers with the climate change debate. We all know how bad the things are. But at the same time, we haven't found a common solution, and we didn't discover yet a common path to work on.

KAKISSIS: Greeks, he says, are addicted to plastic. The average Greek uses about 300 plastic bags a year. By comparison, a Finn uses just four.

PLITHARAS: Only 10 to 12 percent of the plastics that comes into the Greek market are currently recycled.

KAKISSIS: Is that very low compared to others?

PLITHARAS: It's one of the lowest level in the European Union.

KAKISSIS: So I see evidence of this in my own neighborhood. I mean, the dumpster and the recycling bin just around the corner have pretty much the same stuff inside. I'm just having a peek here. In the garbage dumpster, I see plastic bottles. I see plastic bags. Oh, here's some straws.

A lot of that ends up in the landfill. But if plastics and other recyclables happen to be in the right bin, the private waste management company WATT collects and sells it. Kostas Verganelakis manages the company.

KOSTAS VERGANELAKIS: We receive approximately 250 tons on a daily basis. So it's like one mountain of waste that comes here on a daily basis. If our plant was not here, then all this waste could go directly to the landfill.

KAKISSIS: Or in the sea if you're on a Greek island.

Poros Island is in the Saronic Gulf, which, recent studies show, is full of plastic. It washes up on beaches in a country that lives off tourism. Endangered sea turtles choke on it. George Sarelakos, the diver, sees fish eat it.

SARELAKOS: You know, when we dive, we see parts - plastic bags almost turn into microplastics floating around and fishes eating this microplastic. Whatever we throw into the sea, we get it back, and we get it back to our stomachs.

KAKISSIS: The divers lay out more trash on the pier - cans, glasses, engines and more plastic.

NIKOLETTA KARADIMA: (Speaking Greek).

KAKISSIS: Eighty-four-year-old Nikoletta Karadima walks by and gasps at the sight.

KARADIMA: (Speaking Greek).

KAKISSIS: "We're throwing all that in there?" she says. "That's our sea. I swim in that sea." For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis on Poros, Greece.

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The European Union Hopes To Ban Single-Use Plastic By 2021

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In Greece, divers calling themselves the "garbage collectors of the sea" are fishing out plastic waste from the eastern Mediterranean. Now the EU will lend a hand by banning single-use plastics. SACHA PFEIFFER, HOST: The European Union wants to ban single-use plastics, like straws and plastic bags, by 2021.

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New York Today

Weather: Still frigid - in the teens this morning with wind chills around zero. But a thaw is coming. A balmy 29 this afternoon, 45 tomorrow and a rainy 52 by Thursday.

Alternate-side parking: in effect until Feb. 4.

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The governor wants to ban single-use plastic bags. Credit... Librado Romero/The New York Times

New: Among Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's goals in the coming year is for the Democrats who now control the State Legislature to ban single-use plastic bags. You can read my colleague's piece on what we know about the governor's proposal.

Why it matters: One hundred billion plastic bags are used by Americans each year, according to a study cited by state officials.

Would you be banned from personally using plastic bags? No. You could still use them in your personal life, to make art, stuff a pillow or design clothes.

How soon could this happen? Perhaps this year. A version of the ban - which mirrors an earlier bill Mr. Cuomo has supported - is before the State Senate environmental committee.

Would all plastic bagsbe banned? No. Plastic bags used for things like fresh meat or produce would be exempt. As would plastic bags used by restaurants for leftovers or takeout. And plastic bags used to deliver newspapers - yes, that still happens - would also be exempt.

What are other places doing about plastic bags? Single-use bags have been banned in Boston ( 2018), California ( 2016), Hawaii ( 2015) and in other parts of the world.

What else is happening locally? Styrofoam is already banned in New York City.
The Times's Luis Ferré-Sadurní reports:
More than 10,000 public housing residents suffered hourslong heat and hot water failures Monday as bone-chilling temperatures swept the city.

The vulnerability of the New York City Housing Authority's outdated heating systems was exposed last winter when more than 300,000 residents experienced disruptions.

Those heating failures, coupled with a controversy over mishandled lead paint inspections and other debacles, have intensified scrutiny of the agency to the point where the federal government is considering a takeover.

A glimmer of hope: It took the housing agency four to seven hours to restore heat at most developments on Monday. That's a marked improvement from the 36 hours it took on average last winter.

The Times's Corey Kilgannon reports:
We told you last Friday that Westsider Rare & Used Books, one of the last independent bookstores on the Upper West Side, had announced it was closing after 35 years, only to have supporters begin raising funds to keep it open.

Now it's official - a co-owner, Dorian Thornley, said the campaign raised enough to keep the shop on Broadway near 80th Street open.

"The people have spoken," he said. Over 800 people contributed to a GoFundMe campaign to raise more than $52,000 in several days. "We're all just bowled over."

Mr. Thornley plans to use the money to pay off back rent, buy books and market the shop.

Finally: New York State banned conversion therapy, after years of trying.

Mysterious subway heroes: Five strangers kept a man alive after a heart attack. Now he wants to find and thank them. [ NBC New York]

Another public bus was taken on a joy ride: Same thief? [Gothamist]

A 1,500-foot tower across from St. Patrick's Cathedral: That's what one developer is planning. [ Curbed, via Crain's]

How ousted lawmakers are spending their campaign cash: Meals, and paying off old bills. [ BKLYNER]

Grinch: A man stole $1,000 from Girl Scouts selling cookies at the Woodbridge Center Mall in New Jersey. [ NJ.com]

Break a sweat at a yoga class overlooking Winter Village skating rink in Bryant Park. 8 a.m. [Free]

The rapper Topaz Jones brings his funk-influenced sound to Pianos on the Lower East Side. 8 p.m. [Free with RSVP]

The poet Jossie Ortiz-Bynum and the author Jaclyn Gilbert speak at Dixon Place as part of the Queer Text series. 7:30 p.m. [Free]

Lace up your dancing shoes for a class based on the work of Isadora Duncan at 92Y. 6:30 p.m. [$18]
- Iman Stevenson

Events are subject to change, so double-check before heading out. For more events, see the going-out guides from The Times's culture pages.

It's been three weeks since we all made resolutions to eat better, exercise more and Marie Kondo our closets.

How's it working out for you?

Maybe this will help.

New York City Winter Restaurant Week started yesterday and will last until Feb. 8. During that time, participating restaurants will offer prix fixe lunches and dinners priced between $26 and $42.

Among the places participating are the storied 21 Club in Midtown, the Atlantic Grill at Lincoln Center and Vandal on the Lower East Side.

How will this help with your resolution to be a healthier version of yourself?

The prix fixe menus offer great dishes that are, by definition, less expensive than the rest of the menu. Fewer options means fewer temptations to impulse-order appetizers and desserts that can add inches to your waistline.

So step out, try a new place. If you've kept your resolution for this long, you deserve it.

Dear Diary:

In 1958 the woman who would become my wife and I both lived at Trinity House, a coed residence for college graduates on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights.

She worked in Midtown, and I worked on Broadway near Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan. We decided to meet for a drink near her office one Friday night after work. But where? We chose the Rainbow Room and arranged to meet outside under the marquee at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

There are, of course, two nearly identical entrances to 30 Rockefeller Plaza, one on 49th Street and one on 50th. I did not know that at the time, and neither did she.

Predictably, each of us picked a different entrance, and a half-hour later each of us had pretty much given up on the idea of any more dates with "that one."

But we both decided to check the elevator bank inside to see if we had the rendezvous wrong.

As luck, or fate, would have it, we checked at the same time, and then took the elevator up to enjoy 75 cent martinis and the best view in Manhattan.
- James Waples

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N.Y. Today: Single-Use Plastic Bags May Soon Be Banned

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New York Today Weather: Still frigid - in the teens this morning with wind chills around zero. But a thaw is coming. A balmy 29 this afternoon, 45 tomorrow and a rainy 52 by Thursday. Alternate-side parking: in effect until Feb. 4. New: Among Gov. Andrew M.