Roosevelt Island Art Installation OMG How Will I Survive The Plastic Bag Ban Shows How To Reduce, Recycle, And Reuse To Minimize Landfill Waste – NYC Plastic Bag Ban Starts Today But Enforcement Penalties Delayed Until April 1

The NYC Plastic Bag Ban starts today, March 1.

Plastic bags are officially banned across New York State! Its one way we can help decrease pollution and create a cleaner, greener city. pic.twitter.com/iPhgqu5FWu

NYC Mayor’s Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) March 1, 2020

But penalties will not be enforced until April 1.

The Department of Environmental Conservation will not enforce penalties for store owners handing out single-use plastic bags until April 1 https://t.co/tGBNmY2DU9

POLITICO New York (@politicony) March 1, 2020

Yesterday, Roosevelt Island resident Karen Lee’s art installation – OMG How Will I Survive The Plastic Bag Ban – showed us how to Reduce, Recycle and Reuse to minimize what ends up in landfill.

@Rooseveltisland creative Karen Lee Turtle in Ocean art installation reminds us plastic bags look like their favorite food jellyfish. @NYCSanitation Sem gives a recycling demo, Anthony from GRIN talks compost & @LibRoosevelt joins. #community #reuse pic.twitter.com/fjXYZPDgQX

iDig2Learn (@iDig2Learn) February 29, 2020

Ms Lee takes us on a tour of OMG How Will I Survive The Plastic Bag Ban

and here’s where our trash goes.

More on Roosevelt Island Zero Waste initiatives at these prior posts.