PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia announced the ban on single-use plastic bags will begin July 1. The ban, which was originally passed by City Council in December 2019, follows a period of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although the ban begins July 1, the city will implement a 9-month awareness, education, and warning period. After April 1, 2022, the city will begin to fully enforce the ban.
As such, businesses are encouraged to begin phasing out their plastic bag supply and post signage notifying customers of the change as soon as possible.The single-use plastic bag ban was passed as a major advancement toward cleaning up Philadelphia’s streets and waterways, and reducing plastic waste."Even in the wake of recovery from a.