Posted on 02/10/2014 4:45:34 PM PST by matt04
One state lawmaker is now hoping more people will make the switch to cloth bags, and is calling for a tax on plastic bags.
Imagine not having a ball of plastic bags in a drawer somewhere in your house. Soon, in our state, asking for a plastic bag may cost you more money.
That's what environmentalists are hoping for - a ban on plastic bags in Connecticut.
Close to 100 cities and counties across the country have already done it, the biggest city being Los Angeles. People in those cities told various news outlets that the ban is working fine.
State Sen. Ed Meyer (D-Guilford) proposed this ban in 2011. This time he said he hopes more people are familiar with the idea and it will become a law.
Meyer's ban would put a 5-cent fee on any plastic bags that someone gets from a store.
"I want to encourage people to use cloth bags, which many stores are doing," Meyer said.
He added that he encourages cloth over paper bags because they are more biodegradable.
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Why are they doing this? Because you can’t suffocate a politician with a paper bag or a cloth sack.
Paper bags come with a fee in Seattle. Plastic bags are banned outright( except small bags for drippy meat or produce.) EBT is exempt.
I’ve been voluntarily using cloth bags off and on for 25 years and haven’t gotten sick from a food borne illness that could be traced to that. The key word is voluntary, though. If I have too many plastic and paper bags accumulated in the drawers and cupboards, I start taking my own. When I start needing them again for garbage or whatever, I stop taking my own. No bag ban in Everett, though there have been noises about a statewide one.
Just returned from Santa Cruz Ca. Paper bag cost ten cents. It was raining so I paid cause I didn’t want things to get soaked. They smoke weed in every single store, but you can’t get a stupid bag without paying for it. Insanity.
The plastic is illegal, but the paper is not. Yet Target is not offering the paper like other stores. You must bring your own.
What happened to, “If you don’t like_____don’t do______?”. Isn’t that what liberals have been preaching about everything since Roe v. Wade?
Idiots. Just require that the recycling companies add proper equipment to handle the bags.
I live in Grapevine TX. Our garbage pickup is handled by Allied Waste/Republic Services. In the Fall of 2013, they ADDED the plastic grocery bags as acceptable items for recycling. They added a film recovery process at their North Texas Recycling Center in Forth Worth.
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