Posted on 02/16/2017 2:21:44 AM PST by SMGFan
ALBANY — New York City shoppers can put away their coin purses if they want to continue to use plastic bags. Gov. Cuomo Tuesday signed a bill to impose a moratorium blocking the city from imposing a controversial 5-cent fee on plastic disposable bags.
Cuomo, who released a lengthy statement on the issue, said the city law that was due to go into effect on Wednesday was “deeply flawed” even if the intent to clean up the environment was a good one.
The governor said he’s creating a task force to come up with a uniformed statewide plan to deal with “the plastic bag problem.” "New York — like the rest of the nation — is currently struggling with the environmental impact of plastic and paper bag waste, particularly with a focus on plastic bags,” Cuomo said. “Plastic bags are convenient, but not without financial and environmental costs.”
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of course above I meant “deeply flawed” ( Think one word , time another)
It is impossible for me to propose a “solution” to any environmental issue that is so outrageous that the Democratic politicians won’t go for it.
But let me try.
How about the governor has a no-bid nine figure contract with a seven figure kickback to his favorite offshore account.
The request for bids will indicate that the winner will have thousands of experts train New Yorkers on how to carry their groceries in large buckets on their head.
This has proven to be a great success in the third world, and we want to join them in perpetual poverty!
The typos around herelately have been inadvertently amusing! Yes my space bat sticks and im sick of correcting it.
I was talking to someone that had been in a third-world country. The tap water is no good for drinking, so they buy (or carry?) drinking water in plastic bags.
So there are millions of plastic bags all over the place, and they clog the drain water which creates stagnant pools for Malaria mosquitoes to thrive, and back up sewage, which pollutes....
their drinking water.
And mind you - the problem isn’t the plastic bags - it is the people’s total ignorance and lack of regard for their environment.
In our town they banned plastic bags. So I always grab an extra handful when I shop a mile in the other direction. Although we also bought brand new plastic bags to pick up the dog-poop with.
Oops, that should be “Space bar.” :)
Kaiser Wilhelm has been hoist! The nanny state giveth. And the nanny state can taketh away.
Reusable shopping bags can be problematic, too. Either they’re the kind that aren’t washable, or if washable people don’t. And then those reusable bags become germ-laden bug farms. Why not keep the grocery bags and fine the hell outta people for littering?
Lol. ..classic!
Just keep a stash of bags and use them repeatedly, make sure they from different companies. Force the retailers to use them.
We recycle them, as small trash can bags or take them back to a recycle bin.
Disposable Baby diapers are a worse pollution issue 500 yrs to decompose.
...Large numbers of bacteria were found in almost all bags and coliform bacteria in half. Escherichia coli (E. Coli) were identified in 12% of the bags and a wide range of enteric bacteria, including several opportunistic pathogens...
And the law of unintended consequences strikes again!
The governor said he’s creating a task force to come up with a uniformed statewide plan to deal with “the plastic bag problem.”
IE: We want the money from this robbery scheme at the state level.
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