it takes SEVEN trucks to carry the same number of paper bags as ONE truckload of plastic bags... look for the teamsters to push for the ban
Posted on 10/11/2014 8:38:36 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Plastic bag manufacturers on Friday passed their first hurdle in their effort to delay and eventually repeal California’s new ban on single-use plastic shopping bags before it takes effect.
The office of Attorney General Kamala Harris cleared the way for the groups to begin collecting signatures for a referendum vote on the ban on the November 2016 ballot.
Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the first statewide ban on plastic bags, citing a “torrent” of plastic pollution in parks and waterways. It followed one of the fiercest legislative battles of the year, pitting bag makers against environmentalists. …
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Kill a tree, choke a fish. “What difference does it make now?”
If they ban bags in Cauliphonya, what are they going to call “bag ladies” and “bag men”? DemocRAT fundraisers?
i like it,,,funny
It’s stupid....Just plain stupid. We’re no longer a government of the people.
The evils of Big Bag.
california supermarkets...at least the ones I frequent, now charge a dime for a paper bag.
now thats progress...isnt it.
we’ve come a long way baby.....from “Save a Tree. Use Plastic..”..through Paper or Plastic”...all the way to being charged for a container to carry our purchases home in.
California..”where.yesterday’s solutions...are tomorrow’s problems”
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No one complained in years gone by. They were great for draining French fires, wrapping raw garbage, waste baskets, wrapping presents, boot trays...etc etc.
Of course I use my plastic bags for garbage...but nothing else.
Go back to "growing trees for the people" instead of some stupid owl".
I also shop at Aldi...but not big shopping like when my kids are little. I use a cloth bag over and over. Haven't died yet from the "germs".
Wouldn’t have any problems if the SLOBS who live in these green states would NOT LITTER and use the bags again at home.
Why don’t the social psychologists who motivated the nation into recycling get the illegal immigrants and poor to have some self respect and take of what they want instead of trashing everything handed to them. Oh, that’s right, it has been proven that if something is easy to acquire it is not viewed as worthy. If something is hard to acquire then it is viewed as very valuable.
Hence, the Few, the Proud, the Marines.
The communists have ruined this nation and they have accomplished it knowingly.
Been using insulated and reusable bags for years. Just a stupid kerfluffle. The only thing moderately annoying is not having free bags to carry with me for dog poop. For refrigerated food an insulated bag is a MUCH better way to go.
That said, it is silly that we went from renewable and biodegradable paper to plastic in the first place. Sort of like going from global winter, to global warming to climate change.
I used use plastic bags for garbage and kitty litter. Now days, they intentionally put holes in the bottoms so you can’t reuse them for anything.
“Silly” in what respect? The liberals pushed for the move from paper to plastic in the first place to “save the trees”. They never admit they are wrong about anything. (Next move will be to hemp bags, if it can be deemed “sustainable”.)
Double up on them and they won’t leak.
Ostensibly, of course, the holes are to prevent kids (to whom liberals want to give “rights”) from suffocating themselves.
it takes SEVEN trucks to carry the same number of paper bags as ONE truckload of plastic bags... look for the teamsters to push for the ban
SB270, authorizes a 10-cent fee for paper bags that are now often provided for free.
I am sure that the stores have already factored in the prices of these bags to your overall bill. Nothing is free. Now they just want you to pay for them twice.
How are the homeless going to store their cans?
It was bad enough with the paper bag ban, guys at bars panicked at closing time when beer goggles just weren’t enough. Those green mesh bags just don’t cut it.
What’s the world coming to?
And the railroads are too choked up with coal and oil deliveries to our enemy Red China to worry about rail deliveries of either kind of bag, too. Hmm.
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