I'm glad to hear that. I really don't care about newsome at all and could care less what he thinks about the idea cause it is not his idea and not HIS world.
That said...I love the idea and hope it catches on around the country. I personally am sick and tired of seeing plastic bags stuck in trees and plastered up against fences with names of stores on them. Let's go back to paper. It's the best.
I'm sure with today's technology they could do something so that the plastics wouldn't be mixed up in the recycle bins.
It's an all around stupid idea. The reality of the situation is that both types of bags present ecological problems, recycling is a joke as most recycled goods take more energy than fresh harvest and creation, and most of the stuff you turn in for recyling winds up at the dump anyway. It's a law based on false assumptions to fix a crisis that doesn't exist and will do nothing more than add costs. Two of the reasons businesses like plastic bags is they condense better and are lighter, being able to ship more units in the same space and weight saves on shipping costs and fuel usage.
I'm with you. I have a lot of fruit trees in my yard, and every spring, when the winds whip up, I'm constantly pulling those damn things out of the branches.