Posted on 08/02/2019 1:10:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Supermarket chains in Connecticut are capitalizing on a new law that seeks to ultimately eliminate plastic bags but was engineered to collect $50 million in state revenues beginning August 1.
The once familiar “paper or plastic?” at the supermarket check-out is no longer an option in Connecticut after Democrats passed a law that requires a ten-cent tax on single-use plastic bags until July 1, 2021, when the bags will be entirely banned.
Most consumers have no option currently, however, due to the supermarkets’ decision to forgo offering plastic bags immediately and, instead, offer only paper bags at a fee of ten cents per bag. Since the state’s new ten cent charge is only on plastic bags, the chains can pocket the ten-cent fee on each paper bag themselves.
The law was just recently passed, forcing store owners and managers to make quick decisions about what to do with their plastic bag inventories.
In an interview with Breitbart News, popular WTIC Connecticut radio host Todd Feinburg said while “the best part of it all” is that the ten cents charge on the plastic bags is not going to the government as Democrats planned, the supermarkets’ action will have an impact on their customers.
Feinburg said many of his listeners have called into his show this week with complaints of the new law and the fees on the paper bags.
“People use the plastic bags for all kinds of things: for school lunches, for pet poop pick-up when they go for a walk – I hear that the most,” he said. “And one of the unintended consequences, as I understand, is that people now start buying plastic bags for the purpose of following their dogs around. And those are thicker bags.”
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Banning plastic bags only means they will have to cut down more trees to make paper ones.
You need to use one of those reusable bags 132 times before you start to net gain anything over one time use bags...
And if carbon is your concern, transporting paper bags uses far more carbon than the plastic film bags.
Going to enjoy my popcorn watching how this plays out
CT resident here—we saw this craziness on the horizon and starting stocking up on empty bags of all sorts.
We should be good for twenty years or so... :-)
When the Democrats start talking about banning/taxing something stock up now!
Our moonbat governor here in Maine, 70 something Janet Mills and her moonbat pals in the Maine House and Maine Senate banned these “single-use” bags starting next April 22nd, “Earth Day.” (When is Private Property Rights Day?)
These bags were never “single-use” bags at my house, and most other people’s houses here in Maine.
We put kitchen trash in them, and double-bagged them before we took them to the “transfer Station.” From there, all the garbage was taken to a trash-to-energy facility to be burned to generate electricity.
We also lined the waste baskets in the bathrooms with these bags.
In addition, I sell on eBay and when I sell a book, it’s sealed up in one of these supermarket plastic bags before I roll it up in bubble wrap and pack it to be shipped, sometimes to other countries.
The problem for these, mostly Democrat, lawmakers is that they cannot believe that their targets can read and adapt to their changes. They assume a static scene and are left ‘papered over’!
I did the same with incandescent light bulbs 10 years ago. We bought about $500 worth of every bulb we use. Lamp, ceiling, oven, chandelier, everything. We’re good for another 8-10 years!
“You need to use one of those reusable bags 132 times before you start to net gain anything over one time use bags...”
...I don’t get it.
They keep saying here in Florida that plastic bags end up in streams and oceans. Mine don’t because I dispose of them properly.
That is cool.
I love cigars, and order them by mail (and have for many years). My wife keeps asking why I have so many cigars, and I explain that eventually mail order cigars will be banned, cigars will be taxed more and more heavily, etc.
In the last two years four states have banned mail order cigars. It is coming for sure...and I am ready!
Me, too. I bought two cases of bulbs. I’ll never run out!
But now that I’m getting too old to haul out the ladder and change the bulb in my street lamp post, something that lasts longer than a month sounds awfully sweet.
Me, too. My 90 year old dad asked me this morning...what happens if you bring your own plastic bags to the market?.
LOL! And, I don't know the answer.
I had my cigar days when living in Canada. They were, IIRC, Candella Lites, made in Cuba. Non-Cuban cigars were like smoking French cigaretters, i.e., unpleasant at best.
I thought that was the very reason this country went to plastic, save the trees. The problem with the socialists is they are like children, they solve what they think is the problem but they don't look down the road at all or consider unintended consequences.
We used paper bags for everything we could, paper straws even. Then oh no had to go to plastic. When I was growing up we burned our own trash and there was never much. That paper and cardboard burned right up. Real cans after burned rusted away fast to nothing too. No where near the amount of trash we have now and no longer allowed to burn our own now.
The thing is about going back to paper in a big way- the socialists have restricted logging, sawmills, paper mills to the point that might be an issue too. More unintended consequences.
I did the same with incandescent light bulbs 10 years ago. We bought about $500 worth of every bulb we use. Lamp, ceiling, oven, chandelier, everything. We’re good for another 8-10 years!”
LOP! We are totally LED. Even our four-foot tubes have been replaced!
I love cigars as well! “Camacho Carojo” (red label) is my favorite for under $10. “The Banker” by H. Uppman is another fave.
I will be using bags from Department Stores (that are some sort of plastic) that say inside “reusable and recyclable” so I will make store employees (and the store manager if necessary) read that message if they challenge me. :-)
Cubans have a mysterious way of arriving at my house from time to time—don’t know how that happens though. :-)
“... plastic bag bans may actually encourage people to use less environmentally friendly alternatives.”
Yep. Let your dog poop in a democrat neighbor’s yard...and let it lay.
Since they're pro-choice, you get to choose between hanging and a firing squad.
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