Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Cuyahoga County Council poised to pass countywide plastic bag ban
cleveland.com (Plain Dealer newpaper) ^ | 5/1/2019 | Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com

Posted on 05/02/2019 6:03:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County Council is poised to pass a countywide ban on single-use plastic bags after all the members of a council committee on Wednesday voiced support for the ban.

Four members of the Education, Environment, and Sustainability Committee signed on as co-sponsors of the ban during the Wednesday hearing, and Council President Dan Brady told cleveland.com he expects the measure to pass.

Committee Chairwoman Sunny Simon and Councilman Dale Miller are the primary sponsors. Signing on Wednesday were Brady, Council Vice President Pernel Jones Jr., and councilwomen Shontel Brown and Cheryl Stephens, giving the measure the six votes needed for passage.

A simple majority of the 11-member council is needed to pass legislation.

Contacted Wednesday, a spokeswoman for County Executive Armond Budish could not immediately say whether Budish supports the measure or whether he would sign the ordinance into law.

If signed into law, the ban would go into effect on Oct. 1 to give retailers time to use up their supplies of plastic bags, and allow time for community education.

The last time Council attempted to curtail the use of plastic bags was a 2017 proposal by Simon and Miller that would have added a 10-cent fee per plastic and paper bag. But that measure faced heavy pushback and never made it to out of committee.

Brady on Wednesday said he believed the proposed ban had garnered a “broad consensus.”

Jones and Stephens said they have received calls and emails in support of the ban from both urban and suburban residents of the county.

Simon acknowledged that the ban would be a difficult change for county residents. But she said it was a necessary one, and likened the environment in America to Paris’ fire-damaged cathedral of Notre Dame.

“This is our cathedral,” she said. “Teddy Roosevelt saw this as something as a legacy that we have to preserve. This is our future.”

The ban applies to all single-use plastic bags and paper bags that are not 100 percent recyclable or made from at least 40 percent of recycled material.

The ban would not apply to plastic bags that customers bring with them to retailers, and bags used for carry-out orders of prepared food or restaurant leftovers.

It also would not apply to plastic bags used for newspapers, perishable items such as produce and meat, garbage, dry-cleaning, pet waste, prescription medication and bags provided at curbside pick-up or points of delivery and bags used for legally transporting partially-consumed bottles of wine.

Simon said Wednesday that a marketing campaign will be launched shortly to prepare residents for the change. And the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District is helping secure a grant so reusable bags can be provided to residents throughout the county, Simon said.

The ban would be enforced by the county’s Department of Consumer Affairs. First-time violators would be subject to a written warning. Second violations would carry a civil fine of up to $100 and subsequent violations would carry fines up to $500.Violations are defined as each day a retailer doesn’t comply with the ordinance.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bags; environment; ohio; plastic
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last
To: Lowell1775

ping


21 posted on 05/02/2019 6:31:46 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: griswold3
Seeing all the plastic in landfills is saddening.

Wait a minute. Climate freaks have been asking for ways to sequester carbon. Burying it does the job.

I asked a climate fanatic I know, "Isn't burying plastic bags good since it sequesters carbon a good thing?" Answer, "Uh, that's a good question."

22 posted on 05/02/2019 6:33:31 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

The suburbs of Cleveland, in and out of Cuyahoga County, have sustained the region. The county and the City of Cleveland overall are corrupt cesspools.

I am moving back to the region one day to retire (insert snark here), but will never buy in the county despite many, many great suburban cities. That makes me and Mrs. Birdman sad.


23 posted on 05/02/2019 6:37:16 AM PDT by Birdman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: sport
Bet they will tax bag sales. They will tax the air you breathe as soon as they can find a way.

"Everything people do for pleasure has been taxed. I mean, drinking's been taxed. Smoking's been taxed. That only leaves...."

OH!

Well, it will certainly make Chartered Accountancy a much more interesting profession!"

- Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1970


24 posted on 05/02/2019 6:47:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2
Pretty soon they will just serve you food in your cupped hands or just take the shopping cart home with the groceries in it.

There is an enviro-documentary out there, produced by idiots, that actually shows this being done.


25 posted on 05/02/2019 6:49:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

Makes me want to drive up there and start handing out plastic bags with Chief Wahoo’s picture on them.


26 posted on 05/02/2019 6:49:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

Basically right half of the Bell Curve Democrats punishing in an obtuse fashion Democrats on the left half of the Bell Curve.

No true conservative would seek to divide the D party it is not who we are.


27 posted on 05/02/2019 7:05:24 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

All of my plastic bags are multiple use. Small trash can liners, dog cleanup, recycled at store, collecting cleanup rags and paper towels, storing brass, lots of second uses.


28 posted on 05/02/2019 7:08:15 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

I don’t know about anyone else, but most of the plastic bags I get are from the grocery store. They become kitchen garbage bags for the little bin that hangs off the under-sink cabinet door. If I didn’t get these, I would have to buy special-purpose plastic bags for the purpose. How does that make anything better?

What is their goal here? It’s not like the sea of plastic in the ocean is coming from Ohio (or much of it from on-land garbage in north America in general). We’re not China or India, we don’t have tons of plastic garbage dumped in our rivers to float out to sea. The one major problem I see with plastic bags is that they become an eyesore when they are discarded carelessly or get away, ending up stuck in trees, bushes, fences, etc.


29 posted on 05/02/2019 7:12:14 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

Yet, wrapping up biodegradable pet poo in plastic is ok.


30 posted on 05/02/2019 7:17:57 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bgill

BTW, all, I forgot to add this: In NYS, WIC and SNAP recipients are exempted from paying the paper bag tax.


31 posted on 05/02/2019 7:20:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

If it is a “countrywide ban” doesn’t it apply to all states?


32 posted on 05/02/2019 7:21:20 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla

Ah, well, of course they are exempt. They don’t have to pay for anything.


33 posted on 05/02/2019 7:22:42 AM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

Nobody’s that stupid.
For well over a dozen years, single use plastic bags have been required to be manufactured with plastic that has about 10% starch in it. Once exposed to weather, bacteria and sunlight the starch breaks down quickly and the plastic particles left are dispersed. The plastic is then subject to UV degradation and breaks down even further. Why do you think grocery bags that are over 6 months old rip and split so easily?
*** This is a problem that does not need a solution ***, especially a stupid solution like that foisted on society by liberals that have not examined the problem, but who want to feel good about themselves.


34 posted on 05/02/2019 7:59:26 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bgill

“Yet, wrapping up biodegradable pet poo in plastic is ok.”

For well over a dozen years, single use plastic bags have been required to be manufactured with plastic that has about 10% starch in it. Once exposed to weather, bacteria and sunlight, the starch breaks down quickly and the plastic particles left are dispersed. The plastic is then subject to UV degradation and breaks down even further. Why do you think grocery bags that are over 6 months old rip and split so easily?

Biodegradable pet poo is a perfect application for biodegradable single use plastic bags.

These fools passed the law requiring the starch additive, now they’ve forgotten what they legislated and want to legislate some more.


35 posted on 05/02/2019 8:04:44 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: mewzilla

IF I take a bunch of my new kitchen trash bags INTO the store when I shop & put my purchases into those bags-—then what?


36 posted on 05/02/2019 8:37:34 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

...my city is gone!...


37 posted on 05/02/2019 9:37:14 AM PDT by jimmygrace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: alternatives?
If it is a “countrywide ban” doesn’t it apply to all states?

It's countywide.

38 posted on 05/02/2019 10:11:15 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Right Wing Assault

“Single use” my ass.

First they banned perfectly good paper sacks. A renewable resource (pulpwood). (No Susie, they aren’t logging the Sequoia to make grocery bags.)

In their stead, everyone was forced to use these plastic sacks. But they are always and ever referred to as “single use”, most people use them for all kinds of things. It’s amazing how often government “solves” the problems they created un-necessarily in the first place. Job security I guess.


39 posted on 05/02/2019 11:19:52 AM PDT by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

Consensus is another word for lack of leadership.


40 posted on 05/02/2019 11:21:24 AM PDT by Freedom4US
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson