Assembly Democrat wants grocery store ban on plastic bags [California]

Sacramento Bee ^ | Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | Kevin Yamamura

[Lonely Bull]

Assemblyman Marc Levine announced today he will revive a proposal banning all single-use plastic bags in California grocery stores.

Under the proposal, most grocery retailers could no longer provide thin plastic bags for customers starting in 2015. For 18 months, retailers could offer paper bags made of recycled materials or reusable plastic bags for customers to bag their milk, eggs and other groceries.

Starting in July 2016, grocery retailers could only provide reusable plastic bags, which many stores already offer at a fee. The new proposal, Assembly Bill 158, also leaves room for stores to provide recycled paper bags at a charge.

[Gorzaloon]

I use the plastics bags for the Catbox specimens. I burst them when I fling them into the dumpster, though. So when the Google van comes through rummaging for data they can sell, they have to wade though it.

[sasquatch]

What am I going to carry my ammo out of the store in?

Wheelbarrow.

[wac3rd]

Global cooling in the 70’s , then Global Warming and now Climate Change to hedge their bets to steal tax dollars and social engineer society.

[zeugma]

Are we all supposed to forget that it was the loons on the left that demanded the use of plastic bags in place of paper?

[CatherineofAragon]

Something to think about....if the bags are carrying bacteria, a contaminated box of crackers would infect your hands as you open it to get to the crackers and eat them.

The plastic grocery bags used to be fairly strong. Now I notice half of them are breaking apart by the time I get my groceries home. I wonder if they’re deliberately making them this way so people will switch to reusables.

[hal ogen]

In Monkey County Maryland ( THE Freak state) they not only require plastic bags but they have the nerve to "tax" them @ 5 cents each. I'm sure the money is "for the children" or something. I would only use plastic bags for their i8ntended use: putting over the heads of LIBs and other insufferable pin-headed dimwits.

[fifedom]

Most CA cities on the leftist dominated coast have already banned plastic and paper bags. The wacked out Rat assemblyman wants to extend that to the conservative interior of the state. Since the Rats have a super-majority in both houses thanks to conservatives staying home in the last election, they can do anything they want. So this is a done deal.

Does anyone know where you can buy grocery store style bags? The trash bags sold in the stores are different and much more expensive.

[aimhigh]

A similar bill, SB 113, was just introduced in the Oregon legislature.

[CatherineofAragon]

"I would only use plastic bags for their i8ntended use: putting over the heads of LIBs and other insufferable pin-headed dimwits."

LOL!