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What happens when one of your Famous Brands of vassar those goes rolled on your own product. This is business as. Well. Plans for a new tax on plastic bags in indonesia looks set to be delayed lawmakers have decided to put back a decision to confirm government proposals and loses 700000. 00 are thought to go through almost 10000000000 plastic bags each year making at the worlds 2nd biggest contributor to Plastic Waste in the oceans the government is proposing an excise duty of just over 2. 00 pe...

Conceptual other countries dumped more than half of the $8000000.00 tons of plastic ways that end up in the oceans every year according to a report from $22017.00 a is there enough awareness of void in plastics in the whole region. well there had at 1st the awareness has not been was not very wide particularly in developing countries like indonesia for example like what you cited and even in countries like china that as big as china but now governments are starting to pay attention because of th...

So theres a lot going on here, really. and its really -- its gotten to the point where, you know, we have a president that is denying the impacts of, you know, this hurricane season last year and this year and actively making the problem worse by, you know, not addressing this root cause of worsening storms. >> theres also the way in which storm surges, and this is something that we saw with katrina, that the storm surges dont just go to the coast, they shoot up into inlets, part of the reason t...

Room of only about 20 state and local officials, and the united states coast guard. bp came um, introduced themselves to everybody. when he found out that i was with "the daily beast" and the media, i was kindly asked to leave. it was -- actually governor crist got me back into the room, i waited by the elevator and just sort of walked in with his entourage, so they couldnt say much with the governor having his hand on my shoulder. >> is information from meetings like that trickling down? are lo...

States coast guard. when he found out that i was with the daily beast and the media, i was kindly asked to leave. it was -- actually governor crist got me back into the room, i waited by the elevator and just sort of walked in with his entourage, so they couldnt say much with the governor having his hand on my shoulder. >> is information from meetings like that trickling down? are local officials being briefed? are local resources, volunteers, being set up to be utilized to their fullest capacit...