Posted on 02/10/2012 11:12:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Shoppers in San Francisco will have to pay 10 cents per bag and more retailers are now banned from handing out plastic bags under a proposal approved Tuesday by the city's Board of Supervisors.
San Francisco already bans large grocery stores and chain pharmacies from using plastic bags, which are blamed for clogging landfills and waterways. The proposal extends that ban to restaurants and to gift shops, hardware stores, boutiques and other retailers.
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Bad news for Mittens. As a plastic wind bag he won’t be able to visit all his usual bath houses now.
No price is too high [for you] to pay when a liberals wants to feel good about themselves, and in control of YOUR actions.
Thanks for the ping!
They actually started by banning paper bags in they 80’s. That was to combat the coming ice age, so we all went to the crappy plastic bags. Can I officially blame the for “globull warming?” This is just more proof that statists never stop!
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