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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

http://www.abagslife.com/http://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

management7


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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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