YAAAAAAY!
Now...about all of those trees losing their lives for paper bags....
You can tell the media are all in with the enviro-weenies as it was the enviro-weenies that forced the flimsy plastic bags on us because the much better paper sacks were “destroying the forests” or some such nonsense, and the media never mention that...
someone’s making money...
This won’t solve the problem, and soon they will be aiming to ban something else, like those thin flimsy plastic bags for fruit, and that won’t save the planet, so they will go after something else, like plastic water bottles, and that will not transform Earth into Paradise, so they will go after ..... (repeat until doomsday.)
They implemented a 10 cent plastic bag tax with a ban in a few years here in Connecticut and it is a huge PITA!
You have to use a “reusable” bag 132 times before you start to gain vs just using the plastic film bags instead in terms of standard environmental impacts.. (resources to produce, fuel used to transport, etc)....
Demand that companies stop using paper then when they've cost consumers a ton of money and put multiple companies out of business, have a terrible twos style tantrum over the alternative you demanded they use.
Has anyone seen that point mentioned in any of these fairy tails about how people have to stop using plastic bags? I sure haven't.
But that's what's become of our nation, 20 percent made up of two year olds manipulated by the permanent government 1% into intimidating the 79% who are sheep so they stay with the herd.
Ignore the tantrums, ignore the herd, and guess who owns the wolves in sheep dog clothing that'll take you down before too many of the sheep in the herd notice you're doing Ok without the herd?
The same permanent government 1% who stir up the two year olds.
It’s a tax scam disguised as something else...
The bag ban also enables shoplifters big time.
I live in MA. and this ban is already being implemented by many towns.
Trader Joes has been using paper bags for as long as I can remember and theyre actually pretty sturdy. They also have a reusable bag thats not only pretty attractive but holds a lot of food.
I have been hoarding plastic bags when I get them because they have lots of uses.
IF I ever live where such a ban is put into place, I will take my own kitchen size trash bags into the store & will make the cashier put my purchases into those bags. I already own those b ags, so they cannot chare me for something extra.
This will severely slow down the exit procedure at the cashier, and have long lines behind me. Maybe others will follow suit.
I still haven’t heard what the politicians plan to do about the kitchen bags which we all use to dispose of our trash.
For those who are so strong bout eliminating plastic in your life, please look clearly around your own house & see what you already own that is plastic....INCLUDING YOUR NEWER CARS.........
Sounds like this is the same scam they ran in CA not long ago.
In CA, the measure was characterized as a save the planet proposition on the ballot so get everyone feeling good about paying 10 cents to save mother earth.
What actually happened though is the bags at the grocery stores got bigger, and much thicker and the kicker is the grocery stores get the 10 cents. None of the money goes to research or anything else.
So in the end, there are now bigger thicker bags “clogging up” the environment and the unionized grocery store is pocketing the money.
I cant wait to leave this state.
Tell you one non-biodegradable plastic pollutant they will never ban: latex condoms.
Millions of those are getting flushed down the toilet every day and probably winding up floating around the ocean. Why are plastic bags evil sins against the environment but not those?
Lets plop our nasty germy haven’t been washed in two years totes on the counter so the cashier can get even more germy hands and pass super bugs onto other customers’ food.
At 10 cents per bag, it might be instructive to learn how much of this cost goes to the government. And, for that matter, how many politicians pushing the ban invested in those companies making the replacement bags.
My town banned that bags. We had to buy bags at the store and remember to bring them with you every time you go to the store. Its a pain in the ass.
So, now we have to bring bags. We usually have to bag them ourselves. There are places with self check out.
I think eventually we will go to the produce section and they will just hand us seeds.