Posted on 05/14/2014 2:39:47 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A proposal to phase out the use of single-use plastic bags in California grocery stores was approved Wednesday by a key Assembly panel despite heavy lobbying efforts by the plastics trade industry, which warned it would cost the state thousands of jobs.
The measure was approved by the Natural Resources Committee, whose chairman, Wesley Chesbro (C-Arcata), talked about visiting a remote island in the northern Pacific only to find a line of plastic particles littering the beach.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
(C) ?
When you’re standing in the check out line at the store call the Assemblyman at home and demand they get their butt down there to help you carry groceries.
So the stores just relabel them Double use?
Communist (my edit).
There is no such thing as a single use bag. They always are reused as trash bags, lunch bags, or storage bags.
Banning condoms?
Banning sandwich bags?
Banning protective LP album sleeves?
Oh, only banning disposable bags for consumers of store bought goods.
Well, the war on disposable plastics makes a good bumper sticker at least.
The cheap crud thin plastic bags (made from recycled milk cartons) are not reusable. They even fall apart getting the groceries from the check out to the car to the home.
Lets start making grocery bags out of something that's 100% organic, 100% recyclable, and comes from a renewable natural resource,.....
At some point, the penalty for living in CA exceeds the benefit.
Plastic "particles"?
In a "line" ?
Did they come from California bags?
Are they even bag particles at all?
Agree. I always use those bags at least twice. Cannot imagine how I ever got along without them. The world will have to cut down more trees to make paper bags. which doesn’t seem environmentally sound either. Or maybe we’ll end up weaving our own bags from local weeds as devolution continues.
crazy...... the man is a crazy
/johnny
California may distribute condoms to prison inmates; bill is advancing in state legislature
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3155866/posts
“paper or rubber?”
I have something called a "Bag Bag" It is a canvas bag that hangs over the door hinge. It is a storage bag for plastic bags, a small opening on the bottom so I can pull them out. Very convenient. I occasionally get paper bags, mainly to use them when I make french Fries. I never recycle paper bags.
-PJ
They can grow genetically altered trees like row crops that can mature in <10 years, and customize them depending on whether you want to make lumber or woodpulp.
And those trees would love a chance to suck up some of that awful awful CO2 that’s supposedly killing the planet
The grocery stores should change the shape of the plastic bags and call them condoms.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
