i'm sure FReepers what have plastic bags would be willing to send MI FReepers bags by the hundreds for only the cost of postage... they must weigh next to nothing and i get ten to fifteen a week!
anybody wants bags let me know
Why do bad or annoying rules or laws seem to spread and proliferate ? Logically, they should die out
We have had that here in Long beach for,several years
Ah, yes. Pasadena, CA, has been an ‘occupied territory’ for some time.We have to bring our own bags to the grocery store. We have bags full of bags in the car, look like homeless folks. I was visiting DIL in New Jersey and they GAVE us bags. It was quite exciting. “Always winter, never Christmas” with the libs. You can go down the street a ways and get them, too. It’s just a City ordinance. Idiots, all.
If I were a kid, I’d sell bags in parking lot for 5 cents.
Perhaps the county commissioners will not be re-elected. If they are, then the citizens must be getting what they want.
They tried this in Dallas County, Texas. It didn’t last long - people took their business elsewhere, other people sued based on state laws, and some companies complied by providing the EEEEEVIL paper bags that we long ago forsook because plastic was “more environment friendly” but that counted as ‘reusable’ under the law.
First thing I thought of was, who decides how much goes into a bag? lol I mean, the county could control that, as well, to cost taxpayers more. The plastic bags are flimsy so, for heavier items, they would be charging for 2 just because they have an inferior bag? It is ridiculousness.
This is exactly what slum-dwellers in 3rd world nations have to do: carry their own cloth bags to the stores. Thanks, enviro-cultists.
i'm sure FReepers what have plastic bags would be willing to send MI FReepers bags by the hundreds for only the cost of postage... they must weigh next to nothing and i get ten to fifteen a week!
anybody wants bags let me know
It is not a bag tax. The 10 cents does not go to the city. It goes to the grocer or other store operator to offset the higher cost of providing a more costly paper bag or a reusable heavy plastic bag.
The bags actually cost about 7 cents each so the retailer picks up about 3 cents a bag but without an mechanism to cover future increases in bag costs, I suppose the 3 cents provides that buffer.
They better put a wall up and lock the people in like East Berlin.
So now I’d have to bring two bottles to get one bag.
Why is a bag worth more than a bottle?
How is paying 10 cents for a bag going to prevent that bag from hurting the environment? It can still end up in the ocean.
I won’t be surprised to find that the quality of the bags will be so cheap and flimsy, with holes in the bottom that they won’t be able to be reused and double bagging will be needed.
I think it’s a good idea. Those ubiquitous plastic bags end up in the ocean or in landfills.
Just because you’re a Conservative, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about the environment.
From a libertarian perspective, one could argue that you should keep your plastic bags to yourself and not have the right to deliver them to the waste stream.
Basically, stop being lazy and bring your own bags!
(Which is what I try to do, but I still accept them, most of the time)
Vote for Donald J. Trump!
Reusable bags are a great way to spread germs from the cart to the conveyor belt at the checkout, to your car trunk, to the kitchen counter. Excellent cross-contamination potential now exists with the supermarket as the nexus.
All a store has to do is SELL the damned things
NO legislation is needed
We’ve had a state wide $.05 tax on bags here for 2 years. No store I’ve ever gone to charges the tax. It’s just an unspoken thing. They create the tax, everyone ignores it.
We recycle those plastic bags, 1 as small trash can liners, 2 as waste disposal for food scraps, so the kitchen doesn’t stink 3 left overs go back to the a recycle box at the store. And I’ve used them to store items from summer to winter clothing. Or stuffing for gift packages. Lots of uses for them.
What about all those DISPOSABLE diapers that take 500 years to decompose they going to tax or get rid of them and go back to cloth ones? Now they use them for adults too.
The nightly news LIBTADS suggested you take your old prescriptions and dump them in a cereal box and seal it and dispose of it in the local land fill. Just don’t flush down the toilet, contaminates the water supply, as if putting them in the land fill doesn’t do the exact same thing. Then throw out the bottles in the land fill too.
I take them back to the pharmacy and they dispose of them the correct way when they dispose of their out of date meds.
Want something besides those cheap plastic chinese bags they are trying to sell you, make your own to the size you want. You can even line them with quilt batting for insulation of cold stuff. Takes 10-20 mins to make. And they are washable and last longer.
Here is one tutorial many more on line you can add zippers or decorate as you like or keep it simple or color code them for types of food items. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEnaFutDodg
Non-disposable bags are breeding grounds for bacteria.
I see people just buying disposable bags on Amazon.
You can buy a box of plastic bags on Amazon; I thought about selling them in the parking lots. The stores hate it. And people bag their stuff in the store, so it looks like they’ve already paid. Causing lots of problems.