As for you and me.....this is their vision of the future for us...
Posted on 05/23/2012 2:44:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags across the city.
The ban was approved 13-1 and will affect 7,500 grocery stores in the city.
Large retailers will have six months to phase out the bags, while small retailers would have one year. Paper bags would also cost customers 10 cents.
City Councilman Eric Garcetti, who recently announced his candidacy for the mayor of L.A., told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO less than 5 percent of the bags used across the city ever reach a recycling bin.
"Tese plastic bags clog our landfills, they clog drainage systems, they litter neighborhoods, and go out to the ocean too where they cause damage to marine life,” said Garcetti.
Large grocery stores will have six months to enact the ban. Smaller stores will have a year to begin charging customers for the bags.
Other Southland cities such as Santa Monica and Long Beach already have similar bans in place.
Roughly two billion plastic bags and 400 million paper bags are distributed throughout the city every year.
Once in effect, Los Angeles will be the largest U.S. city to enact a plastic bag ban.
The madness in society grows and grows. .
Poll at the link:
The city of Los Angeles has voted to ban the sale of plastic bags. Do you approve?
Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.
Vote
Not that I ever wanted to live in LA... but now I don’t want to ever live in LA.
Guess I’ll have to pick my dog’s poop and line the small trash cans with BRAND NEW plastic bags (that will be used once) What morons!
Thank you for voting!
Yes, we must safeguard the environment. 40.67% (85 votes)
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice. 59.33% (124 votes)
Total Votes: 209
...to your store in reusable bags and share all of your germs with strangers
What's next?
produce plastic bags
small plastic containers
plastic bags for meat items
...anything safe and sane will eventually be banned.
Those bags become trash bags for the bathrooms and bedrooms inmy house, serve as lunchbags, used to help clean the trash out of my car, pick up dog poop etc. A frugal person can find many uses for them, produce bags on the other hand are too flimsy to really have a secondary use.
Those bags become trash bags for the bathrooms and bedrooms inmy house, serve as lunchbags, used to help clean the trash out of my car, pick up dog poop etc. A frugal person can find many uses for them, produce bags on the other hand are too flimsy to really have a secondary use.
So what. It will just be a few more trips to the car to retrieve the groceries. Just look at it as free exercise!
Good Lord my state is such an epic embarrassment..Reagan wouldn’t even recognize it anymore if he were still alive. Its run by SEIU, La Raza, and Environmental whack jobs
You’re joking ...right?
Not only that, since all the Dims are so fanatical about helping the underprivileged in the world, are they now going to boost Welfare and Food Stamp benefits so these people can now pay 10 cents per paper bag?
No Plastic bags!
I guess you have to take your luggage to haul your groceries these days in LA.?
I bring in plastic bags, tell them, “No thanks! I don’t kill trees.” haha, they get this confused look. There IS freedom here in Los Angeles, but you have to fight for it every inch of the way.
Speaking of idiocy in LA, I think it was the City Council (or was it the County Board of Supes?) who announced yesterday the winner of their contest to: (hold onto your hats, please) “Choose the art to represent Los Angeles to be imprinted on the FREE CONDOMS that will go out to millions.” There you go, money well spent. How much did the contest cost? How many ‘administrators’ ran it? What was the prize? How many colors will be printed? Black and white? Multi-colors? Who gets the print job? And of course — Why the heck are they spending MY tax money for this?
“Single-use”, as opposed to multi-use plastic bags?
Stupid asses.
I use those plastic bags for numerous other things until they literally fall apart.
Self-congratulatory, micro-managing Commie elites condescend, and fail YET AGAIN.
I thought we were supposed to use cloth bags for our dog poop now - AND our groceries.
As for you and me.....this is their vision of the future for us...
It’s not madness Ben. Everybody has to buy the new bags. Somebody makes them. That somebody had to talk the council into it ‘somehow’$$
Someone needs to start making pop-up boxes for people to use.
A box is not a bag.
The vision I have is of the Soviet Union, where cloth bags were carried at all times, in the hope of finding a potato on the shelf.
Austin is mandating this too.
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