California Takes Anti-Consumer Plastic Bag Ban Statewide

Dignitas News Service ^ | October 1, 2014 | Paul M Winters

[GraceG]

[ The bags are reusable. I have two large dogs who have two outings daily. Thatsa lotta poop. ]

SOOOOOO now you gotta BUY seprate BAG for dog poop and pay 10cents for each paper bag.....

Gee that will save the earth...

[lacrew]

Dear Liberals,

I’m not a pig, and I don’t throw my plastic bags on the ground. So I’m going to keep using them...ok.

[GraceG]

If I lived in Kalifornia I would buy a “plastuic bagging rig” and plastic bags and carry the whole damn thing on my back and when I got the cvash register I would have them bag my groceries in it..

[packrat35]

I have 273 of the old style bulbs stock up. I am good for the rest of my life most likely. I just did an inventory this past weekend.

[Fast Moving Angel]

eBay has 1000 of them for around $20. I’ll take the box to the grocery store and the bagger can pack my groceries in them ... then I’ll use the soiled ones for trash bags. That ought to last me for a while. Effem.

[Billthedrill]

Environmental groups opposed to the ban cited studies conducted as a result of San Francisco's city-wide plastic bag ban, which showed a 70 percent increase of paper bag production generated a 50 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions and produced 80 percent more waste than before the ban was instituted.

Sigh...

[publius911]

Not a problem.

I'll just find the source of my supermarket plastic bag supplier and buy a year supply.
I'll bring my own freakin' plastic bags.

Every single one always gets recycled, too.

Save myself a dime each for the paper bags and save a few trees too.

A month ago I couldn't spel envirenmantaliss...

And now I are one.

[Califreak]

I wondered the same thing every time this debate arose. Millions to be made.

It’s not about saving the environment.

This kind of crap always boils down to lining someone’s wallet.

[Califreak]

Who’s creating that socially conscious and environmentally responsible shopping bag business?

Bags made from organic cotton picked by the indigenous peoples of opressed third world nations and processed and assembled in solar textile mills and factories built with renewable green resources?

[Califreak]

Our environment will probably be dirtier uglier and unhealthier than before
They might not stop at grocery bags.

It could be a sanitation nightmare

[Oatka]

This was quite the opposite of the view of grocers, thrilled at the prospect for added revenue for retailers, who will sell bags to consumers as a result of the law.

"They will sell us the rope we use to hang them."

[catnipman]

City of Boulder did this couple of years ago. Self check-out stands ask how many bags do I “wish” to buy. I always type in that I “wish” to buy none and then fill as many as I need. Fuch ‘em. Would love to have someone take me to court for stealing bags worth 1/100 cent each. Of course, I’d argue that I was simply stating my “wish” per the cash-register language.

[octex]

Then ask kindly for the cashier to pack your groceries in them!
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Lady... I like your style and sass! Great idea!

[liberty_lvr]

Yeah, me and Ritchie G. are BFF's.

What's your problem, bub?

[onceone]

What's your problem, bub?

bub

noun, Slang. 1. (used as an often insolent term of address) brother; buddy.

I appreciate your consistency. Makes my position that much stronger.

[liberty_lvr]

Excellent! Here's one for you, bub:

sanctimonious

[saNG(k)təˈmōnēəs], adjective - making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Enjoy your "position".