Los Angeles has become (1) ............ city in the US to ban plastic bags, after the city council voted (2)............ them from supermarkets and thousands of smaller shops. San Francisco was the first US city to ban plastic bags in 2007.
The phase-out will begin following completion of a (3) .........environmental review. Larger stores would then have six months to get rid of the plastic bags, (4).......... smaller stores will be allowed 12 months to phase them out. Shops will be able to offer customers paper bags for 10c each.
Environmental activists had argued that the millions of plastic bags (5) ........... in the city were a major blight in landfills, waterways and the ocean.