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Illinois's Governor Pritzger signs law banning hotel mini-shampoos, to save the planet
American Thinker ^ | 09/05/2024 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/05/2024 12:55:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

In Illinois, they've figured out how to save the planet: They're snatching the mini-shampoo bottles off your sink at that pricey hotel you're staying at and making you use a big communal bottle instead.

No more cute souvenirs of your travels for you.

According to Illinois Policy, which appears to be a local think tank:

The days are numbered for small shampoo bottles in Illinois hotels because of a new law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Hotels with more than 50 rooms are banned from providing single-use plastic bottles of shampoo, mouthwash and other toiletries starting July 1, 2025.

If a hotel has less than 50 rooms, the law takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026. Hotels will then be expected to transition to refillable containers or face a written warning followed by a fine of up to $1,500.

Washington, New York and California have enacted similar laws. The Illinois General Assembly previously had a bill that would have banned the use of Styrofoam containers, but a partial ban passed instead that applies only to state facilities and agencies.

This has the same stupid and oppressive logic as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banning sales of garden seeds even at allowed-to-be-open Wal-Mart in Michigan during COVID's lockdowns, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg banning 7-Eleven's Big Gulps and stealing salt shakers off diner tables for diners' own good.

It's obnoxious and futile for the purposes stated in the extreme. But it certainly does satisfy the Democrat urge for power.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Michigan; US: New York
KEYWORDS: climatechange; gretchenwhitmer; illinois; jbpritzker; michaelbloomberg; michigan; newyork; newyorkcity; pritzger; shampoo
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1 posted on 09/05/2024 12:55:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Prixter.


2 posted on 09/05/2024 12:55:29 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: SeekAndFind

Insanity.

They’ll just now be for sale in the gift shop.

What about grocery stores or mini marts?


3 posted on 09/05/2024 12:58:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: SeekAndFind

wonderful!
i’ve still got one of those offensive tiny shampoo bottle from a trip I took some time ago

maybe Prixter’s creation of a shampoo shortage will cause my little shampoo bottle to become super valuable now? I will list it on ebay for $6,789,003.69

and plan on retiring SOON!

YIPPEE


4 posted on 09/05/2024 12:58:43 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Are tampons required yet?


5 posted on 09/05/2024 12:59:21 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: xoxox

Reason #52,364 not to ever visit the place or worse, hold a meeting or convention there.

If Fred Flintstone really wanted to contribute to saving the planet, he would go on a major diet. You don’t get that big eating tofu.


6 posted on 09/05/2024 1:02:53 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now he’ll likely legislate the removal of ‘rinse and repeat’ from from full sized shampoos bottles.


7 posted on 09/05/2024 1:04:07 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: faithhopecharity

nope. a slightly larger than the limit bottle will be available at the counter for only 4.99


8 posted on 09/05/2024 1:04:34 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re finally getting rid of those stupid mini shampoo things. It’s about time a politician stopped grandstanding did something that gets to the root of our problems! Looken sharp Governor Pritzger!


9 posted on 09/05/2024 1:04:36 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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ha! you got it nailed. that’s exactly what will happen


10 posted on 09/05/2024 1:05:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: xoxox

Meanwhile, 2 weekends ago, 33 shot, 6 dead in Chicago.


11 posted on 09/05/2024 1:06:34 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: SeekAndFind

Fat piece of s___!


12 posted on 09/05/2024 1:07:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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This means people will buy bigger bottles of shampoo and will leave them behind because as they go to the airport where big bottles of anything liquid are banned they would be thrown away.

Another politician creates a BIGGER problem.


13 posted on 09/05/2024 1:10:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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>making you use a big communal bottle instead.

They will probably use the big communal bottle to recycle the used bars of soap. There used to be a TV ad for one of those.


14 posted on 09/05/2024 1:12:45 PM PDT by fretzer
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With all IL’s problems, the Dems and their Gov. Pritzger do this??
Satisfying a kneejerk urge to exercize bureaucratic power...


15 posted on 09/05/2024 1:13:45 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: SeekAndFind

With all the world’s severe problems, leave it to a dimmocrap to find something REALLY important to take action on!


16 posted on 09/05/2024 1:17:35 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SeekAndFind

Because clean hair is one of the biggest threats to the planet. And Democracy!


17 posted on 09/05/2024 1:17:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (His son nicknamed him Pedo Pete. (mic drop))
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To: SeekAndFind

Next up, toilet paper.


18 posted on 09/05/2024 1:18:34 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: SeekAndFind

Once more Governor Fat Ass costs businesses in Illinois more money with his idiocy.


19 posted on 09/05/2024 1:21:50 PM PDT by Dave911
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It makes as much sense as the TSA 3 oz. size limit does.

Will Illinois ban the sale of all travel size containers?

Maybe everything should be sold as Sam’s/Costco size containers to really save the planet.


20 posted on 09/05/2024 1:26:53 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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