Studies
Plastic Bag Law and Regulation
Plastic Bag Reduction Ordinances: New York City’s Proposed Charge on All Carryout Bags as a Model for U.S. Cities, Jennie R. Romer & Leslie Tamminen Tulane Environmental Law Journal 27 Tul. Envtl. L.J. 237 (2014)
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Plastics Industry's "Public Interest" Role in Legislation and Litigation of Plastic Bag Laws in California, Jennie R. Romer & Shanna Foley Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal 5 Golden Gate Envt'l L.J. 377 (2012)
The Evolution of SF's Plastic Bag Ban, Jennie Reilly Romer Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal 1 Golden Gate Envt'l L.J. 439 (2007)
The Most Popular Tax in Europe? Lessons From the Irish Plastic Bags Levy, Frank Convey, Simon McDonnell, Susana Ferreira Environmental and Resource Economics Environ Resource Econ (2007) 38:1–11
Plastic Bag Externalities and Policy in Rhode Island, Adam Akullian, Carolin Karp, Kemen Austin, Drew Durbin Brown Policy Review (Fall 2006)
Ocean Debris Regulation (references plastic bags)
Transoceanic Trash: Int'l & US Strategies for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Susan L. Dautel Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal (2009)
Forgotten at Sea: An Int'l Call to Combat Islands Of Plastic Waste in the Pacific Ocean, Matthew Schoeder Southwestern Journal of International Law (2010) 16 Sw. J. Int'l L. 265
Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings—entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions, Murray R. Gregory Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. (2009 July 27) 364(1526): 2013–2025
Leatherback turtles: The menace of plastic, Marine Pollution Bulletin 58 (2009) 287-289
Behavioral Economics
Environmental and Behavioral Economics - Applications to China, Haoran He Department of Economics, School of Business, Economic and Law, University of Gothenburg
Behavioral Response to Plastic Bag Legislation in Botswana, Johane Dikgang, Martine Visser Environment for Development - Discussion Paper Series (March 2010)
Related Topics
Instrastate Preemption, Paul Diller, Boston University Law Review (2007)
Government & Non-Profit Reports
CEQA Documents
City of San Jose, Draft Environmental Impact Report: Single-Use Carryout Bag Ordinance (Jul 2010)
R3 Consulting Group, Inc. for The City of Santa Monica, City of Santa Monica Nexus Study (Jan 2010)
Other Government Agency Reports
District Department of the Environment/Alice Ferguson Foundation, D.C. Resident and Business Bag Use Surveys (Oct 2013)
Los Angeles County, Implementation of the County of Los Angeles Plastic and Paper Carryout Bag Ordinance (Nov 2012)
City of San Jose, Bring Your Own Bag Ordinance Implementation Results and Actions To Reduce EPS Foam Food Ware (Nov 2012)
City & County of San Francisco, Checkout Bag Charge: Economic Report (Dec 2011)
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Retail Bags Report for the Legislature (Feb 2010)
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Plastic Bag Report (Oct 2009)
United Nations Environment Programme, Marine Litter: A Global Challenge (Apr 2009)
Non-Profit Organization Reports
Environment Washington, Keeping Plastic out of Puget Sound: Why Washington Should Join the Global Movement to Reduce Plastic Bag Pollution (Nov 2011)
Environment California, Leading the Way Toward a Clean Ocean Communities Around the World Take Action Against Single-Use Plastic Bags (July 2011)
Green Cities California, Master Environmental Assessment on Single-Use and Reusable Bags (Mar 2010)
Greenpeace, Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
Industry-Sponsored Reports
"[T]his case serves as a cautionary example of over-reliance on generic studies of 'life cycle' impacts associated with a particular product. Such studies, when properly conducted, may well be a useful guide for the decision maker when a project entails substantial production or consumption of the product. When, however, increased use of the product is an indirect and uncertain consequence, and especially when the scale of the project is such that the increase is plainly insignificant, the product “life cycle' must be kept in proper perspective and not allowed to swamp the evaluation of actual impacts attributable to the project at hand." Save the Plastic Bag Coalition v. City of Manhattan Beach (2011)
MAIN REPORTS
A Qualitative Study of Grocery Bag Use in San Francisco, The ULS Report (2008)
Prepared for the Progressive Bag Alliance, The Boustead Report (2007)
Environment Group Research Report Proposed Plastic Bag Levy - Extended Impact Assessment, The Scottish Report (2005)
Environment Agency: Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags, an Environment Agency Report for the U.K. (2006)
OTHER REPORTS
American Chemistry Council (prepared by Moore Recycling Associates Inc.), National Postconsumer Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Report (2011)
American Chemistry Council - By Charles P. Gerba, David Williams, Ryan G. Sinclair, Assessment of the Potential for Cross Contamination of Food Products by Reusable Shopping Bags (2010)
Plastic Bag Affiliates, Plastic Bag Legislative Tracking Report (2010)
Plastic Bag Affiliates, Legislative Tracking Report (2009)