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    The Story of a Plastic Bag

    Metadata Updated: April 2, 2025

    The Story of a Plastic Bag map journal from the "DCPS Recycles! School Waste Story Map" series. Have you ever wondered how plastic bags are made or where plastic comes from? You might bring your lunch or your sandwich to school in a plastic bag. It’s very convenient! Chances are, you have lots of plastic bags at your house. Have you ever considered what materials these bags are made out of? What does it take to make a plastic bag? How does it get to your house? The DCPS Recycles! program is designed to fulfill legal requirements; improve building operations; reduce waste of money and natural resources; achieve the SustainableDC target of zero waste by 2032; and teach DCPS students values and skills for a sustainable 21st century. The goal is to sort all waste properly so as much as possible can be composted or recycled instead of sent to a landfill or incinerator! Agency Website.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 2, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-09-12T16:47:12.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2019-12-05T20:25:36.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::the-story-of-a-plastic-bag
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1645,38.7851,-76.8857,39.0341
    Source Datajson Identifier True
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