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Or this:
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Posted on 11/17/2010 9:09:37 AM PST by WebFocus
Los Angeles County passed a major ban last night on plastic bags, according to the LA Times.
Beginning in July, 67 large supermarkets and pharmacies will stop providing plastic. By 2012, the ban will cover 1,000 local stores.
They will also charge a 10-cent surcharge for paper bags.
Although the ban will affect only the unincorporated areas outside L.A., it's seen as a model for the rest of the California -- as will be the lawsuit that might follow.
Outside of California this idea seems years away at best. But it could only help local businesses, which wouldn't have to buy thousands of bags each month from China.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
In following the traditions of the City of Bell, Los Angeles has found a source of income to offset their 1 billion dollar deficit due to their shortfall on the pension funds and to pay for 600 million dollar high schools.
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Or this:
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Correct. That deficit will hit 1 billion this year
RE: I have a soccer ball bag from Sports Authority that
works great as a grocery bag (or laundry bag).
Have you looked at the tag to see where it’s made?
Time to buy stock in whatever corporation produces small waste-bin liners, because a spike in sales may be coming. Many of us save our plastic bags for that purpose.
Plastic is out here in Hawaii as of Jan. 1.
And they can sell you more bags with their names on it that you pay anywhere from $.15 to $5.00 to purchase and provide their stores free advertising. Go ahead, ban the throw away bags, the stores will make more money selling bags that they used to give away for free.
However, most of those "eco-friendly" bags are made in China, too!
I know what would piss them all off, while shopping buy a some Heftys kitchen trash bags and demand that your groceries be packed in them, when you get home you can re-use those bags as trash bags.
That would drive the libs standing in line INSANE!
Not if you wash them once in a while.
Why does everything have to be so hard?
Charge for the plastic bags and when you come back into the store bring them with you and the store refunds your money and they get recycled...just as we had returnable bottles decades ago. It was no big deal.
And do this for plastic bottles etc as well.
I’m one person who is sick and tired of people throwing these bottles out their car window ..my road is a mess.
In fact, one other article I read mentioned that people who reuse the bags to pick up dog poop and the like, will now have to BUY other plastic bags.
Unsurprisingly, they have not thought this out.
Having said that, I hate those plastic bags and have canvas sacks I put in my trunk for the store. I would not have banned them though.
Bacteria bags disease for everyone unless washed between shopping rounds.
I don’t have to look. I know that most everything is
made in (ring gong) the PRC.
Are you boycotting the PRC? Good luck!
Anyone want to place a bet that the County Supervisors whom made this law so, also have stock in the Company’s that make those $2 cloth bags they want you to buy to get you purchases home in.
I think my coat can carry one 16 oz. can of peas in each pocket. I think my pack pack can handle a chicken or two, sushi and some couscous couscous and if I use two of those “green” bags I can manage my whole grocery list. Life is such a breeze in CA;)
String bags would get my vote...I take them along when traveling coz’ they take up hardly any room in your purse and can be whipped out if your purchase stuff. They just keep expanding, expanding and expanding as you stuff things in...and they are washable. Lots of European stores don’t provide free bags...my Mum used sturdy canvas bags, and leather bags, for toting home groceries when we lived there...and I can’t recall they were ever washed, although she sponged off obvious stains. The break down in the food chain wasn’t as prevalent then, and food wasn’t imported much as now. Maybe a partial answer to disease prevention is buy locally.
Are plastic garbage bags included in the ban? How are you supposed to dispose of the household trash?
I don’t get the thing about reusable bags breeding disease. If the food comes in cans or boxes, if your produce is put in a plastic bag, how is there disease in the reusable bag?
Bingo! Or you can sew a few bags or buy some from a local seamstress. Inexpensive, providing work for Americans.
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