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No more plastic bags for me!

Historically, Mexico City has been a great place to get a cheeky case of asthma from the pollution or find out just how much your relatives love you by the amount of ransom they are willing to pay your abductors. Now there’s actually something to love about the place: a ban on non- biodegradable plastic bags. As of this past Wednesday it is illegal to give out these landfill and ocean cloggers in Mexico City, which joins other places that already have limits or bans, such as China, Tanzania, and cities in India Australia, Italy, South Africa, Ireland and Taiwan. According to the United Nations Environment Program, plastic bags are the greatest contributor to litter in the oceans and account for the yearly deaths of tens of thousands of turtles that ingest the bags (thinking they are a tasty jellyfish snack.) It’s a good step in the right environmental direction from a surprising source.