As a byproduct of the oil process, I’d think that efficient use of leftover bits would be commended. So, they are purported to just sit around in landfills and not decompose. How is that different from their parent, oil?
Plastic bags are the cheapest, most recyclable, least environmentally damaging container available. As with DDT anything truly beneficial must be demonized.
The ten-cent bag tax will be another cash cow for the politicians. Watch for it to go up, and up, and up, as do bridge tolls.
First they came for the plast bags, and I said nothing.
Then they came for the paper bags, and I said nothing.
Then I carried my crap home in a moldy canvas bag, too small to put more than 5 items in.
How about requiring welfare folks to spend a few hours picking up these errant bags?
PS Calif wants all food handlers to wear gloves. And change frequently. Where will all these gloves end up? Where the bags used to accumulate?
This is good news for shoplifters. They can bring their own bags with false bottoms. More shoplifting means fewer retail stores. The retail industry is already on its back without this stupid gubmint intervention into the marketplace.
the rest of the world will use what they don’t
It was their stupid idea. Bring back paper for dry goods, plastic for meats, frozen, etc only. Or better yet- boxes.
Why do they always go from one extreme to another?
Cloth bags could be a pandemic looking for a place to happen.
Such distressing news .. might have to go out back and throw an old tire on the burn pile to console myself !
That's how the system works these days. It ain't about litter or dead birds eating plastic bags or the environment or moon spots.
Follow the money.
Had Enough Yet ?............................
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When someone comes up with a paper bag as sturdy & lightweight as a plastic one w/handles on it, fine. But for people who use a cane, walker, or have arthritis, the plastic ones are irreplaceable. And they can be used as trashcan liners, packing small objects, sorting clothes for wash (whites, colors), etc. They don’t just get thrown away in my house...
what will I put the dog poo in?
Hollywood: Plastic bags can be made biodegradable. But there’s a kind of perverse satisfaction in watching the hoy-paloy in this town having to lug their own increasingly dirty bags back and forth to the grocery. -30-