Just go back to paper bags. I grew up with them and I turned out HaLfWAAAY NoRMaL.
What are these liberal idiots going to do when they find out that those reusable bags contain nasty bacteria that comes in contact with edibles? Whoopsie?
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/05/in_a_first_oregon_scientific_s.html ~ the LA City Council is doing this KNOWING FULL WELL that the replacements for the cheap throwaway bags will carry NOROVIRUS and other diseases and kill people.
What’s up with these people? I recycle a lot of my grocery bags as trash liners to all my small trash cans in my house and if I get an abundance of extras, I take them to the recycling bins where they’ll be recycled again. What’s wrong with this notion? These movie stars should worry about other stuff, like Obama wanting to tax them an additional 50%!
These bags are reused for a variety of things and can be recycled, are these people opposed to recycling now.
So when when meat juices drip into the woven bags and can’t be cleaned then people get sick can we sue her.
What do they want people to do - carry stuff stacked up on their heads like they do in Somalia?
More feel good BS from the left.
There’s plenty of room in landfills and a plastic bag has far less mass than the paper version. More fuel to haul in paper and haul out. Paper plants emit greenhouse gas.
This is why California is becoming our Greece.
Things must be going great in LA for this to be a big deal and so important right now. Wait until people are getting sick all over the place frmo reusing plastic bags.
Well honestly. If you’re buying so much food that you need a bag to carry it in, you are clearly over consuming. Shame on you! Think of the poor.
I like plastic bags. What are we supposed to use to pick up dog doo with?
And I hate those women with their prissy little green bags.
What business is it over the governments’s anyway?
Some entrepreneur should set up a stand outside supermarkets selling plastic bags.
I’m waiting for “Elaine” and her friends to protest the waste of trees printing the LA Times.
The smell of Liberalism, they can never make up their minds. Paper is bad! Plastic is bad! What a joke..
Hope they enjoy the salmonella soaked cloth sacks.
So people bringing their own reusable bags have to calculate just how many groceries will fit. Bye bye impulse buying. Grocers will see sales dip as people drive to the next town to shop....law of unintended consequence. Watch businesses leave LA proper. City council, mayor and others will be crying when the pension funds start to shrink. Maybe Julia will kick some $ in.
what!?! the environmental wackos were the ones that pushed plastic bags on us instead of paper! now they want to ban the plastic too!?
Without regard to whether this is a good idea (or not) what authority does a city council have to do anything like this?
This... insanity. Simply because if they can ban plastic bags, then there isn’t anything beyond their purview. Waaay stupid.
In my more uncharitable moments, sometimes a complete economic collapse sounds like a pretty good deal, because as a society we can wipe the slate clean, start over, and asshats that foist this kind of nonsense on everyone will have to get real jobs, or die.
Hm.
Sooo,
What happens if you show up at your local Vons or Ralphs and bring your own Plastic bags to pack the goods???