Most plastic shopping bags will be banned on Oahu next summer under an amended law signed Thursday by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell that will make Hawaii one of the first states to ban the ubiquitous plastic bags in every county.
A bill signed into law in 2012 had called for the ban of plastic shopping bags — unless they were biodegradable — beginning July 1, 2015.
However, according to Caldwell's office, there has been no industry standard about what is considered biodegradable.
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