Dive Summary:

• Plastic shopping bags could become extinct from retail stores following recent city-wide bans of the item in several major cities across the U.S.
• Following the ban on plastic shopping bags in Los Angeles, several other major cities are now following suit, including Chicago and New York.
• “It does send a message that the second- and third-largest cities in the country are going to act,” said Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno

From the article:

The plastic-bag industry is fighting the bans. The American Progressive Bag Alliance, its lobbying arm, said ordinances like Los Angeles’s threaten a business that employs 30,800 people in 349 communities that has embraced recycling and other measures to cut pollution.