Both are banning disposable plastic bags! Whole foods has an initiative to get rid of disposable plastic bags by Earth Day 2008 and China is banning free plastic bags and moving to reusable cloth bags. Good environmental and economic policy if you ask me.
I think this is very cool. As someone who hoards bags we can reuse, actually as someone married to someone who hoards reusable bags, I’m pretty excited about this step. Now let’s do something about Polystyrene!