wait till they start dragging filthy cloth bags across the checkout counters and people start getting sick... who will get sued, the store??? of course they willThe 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
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.
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.
which agency will handle actual enforcement ? :
http://patriotpost.us/reference/california-agencies/
Austin Silly council is doing something similar. For now, I think it is $.05 per plastic or paper bag with both to be banned in the next few years.
wait till they start dragging filthy cloth bags across the checkout counters and people start getting sick... who will get sued, the store??? of course they willYes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers' freedom of choice.
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We never recycle plastic bags in our house but reuse almost every one of them.
Garbage can liners
Carry alls (yes we’ve gone on vacation packing only plastic bags in the back of the car - it’s call vacationing on a superbudget)
Carrying things, like books and such or things to people’s houses.
Packing material - when I ship a book or such to someone, I wrap it in a plastic bag first for water protection
Dog poopy
Guess it’s time to start hoarding.
The liberal county that I am stuck in passed this rule January 1st. What a pain. I purchased the cloth bags on Ebay (making sure that no store or even the school system received one red cent from me). On grocery day, I have to do a load of laundry for the bags that contain any meat products (sometimes it is six bags since not all the meat stuff goes into one bag). The worst part is remembering to keep them in your car. You need them for every store.. Rite Aid, Sears, CVS etc.. I also used the plastic bags you use to get at store for the small trash cans, dog poop, etc... so they were purchased (1,000 at a time on Ebay). If LA passes this rule... it will not be liked by many. IMHO.
Why do they always come up with stupid answer choices for their poll questions?
Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.
What is wrong with a simple YES or No for the choices.
If they are going to make a statement out of it, how about this instead.
Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, this will do nothing to safeguard the environment.
Or
Yes, we should interfere with shoppers freedom of choice.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.
Or how about a third answer
Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.
None of the answers fit my position. The poll is biased.