N.J. Senate committee approves bill charging 5-cent fee for plastic shopping bags

NJ.com ^

[New Jersey Realist]

I much prefer the paper bags anyway.

[kidd]

That was my first thought also.

I demand to know what specific river/stream was “clogged” by plastic bags

[kidd]

Our local grocery store uses biodegradable bags. They have a greenish color. After less than a year they fall apart (I know - last year's hats/mittens were stored in these bags and now the bags are dust).

Does the NJ law allow exceptions for biodegradable plastic bags, or is this just an opportunity to take more money out of the pockets of its citizens?

[wideawake]

I live by several rivers (Navesink, Raritan, Swimming, Ware), lakes (Natco, Takanassee) and inlets (Sands Point, Sandy Hook) and I've never seen this phenomenon.

It's entirely made up.

[fella]

Is this going to be like bottel deposits? If so at 5 cents a bag (Just noticed that there’s no cents key on my keyboard) I can forsee truck loads of bags heading foe N.J..

[Straight8]

Our local HY-VEE grocery gives a nickel credit for each plastic bag re-used by the customer.

[Buckeye McFrog]

and offer only recyclable paper or plastic bags by 2015.

uhhh....all plastic bags that are currently being used are 100% recyclable. Hence all current bags would fully comply with the law. Friggin' doofuses!

[sport]

They should charge a dollar.

[Tomato lover]

RE: Charging 5 Cents per bag

Who is going to police the amount of bags used for each purchase?

Bag Boy: You want that double-bagged? Let me add that to your total. . . .

You can be sure there will be corruption in that scam.

TL

[sport]

Wer know that, but it makes the idiots feel good. And it is futhur evidence that as a Nation, we no longer have the intelligence to govern ourselves and must have the government wipe our collective asses.

In the Holy Bible, the Apostle Paul writes,"Professing to become wise, they become fools". Or words to that effect. If the November 6, 2012 doesn't' demonstrate that, nothing ever will.

[NoCmpromiz]

You have to remember that NJ is the state where it ts illegal to pump your own gas at a service station. ....There are a lot of stupid things that I need to put up with living in New Jersey but I don't mind this one.

The other side of this is that it is legal in NJ to pump your own diesel. The problem with that is that not all 'gas' station jockeys know that so when I pull in with my VW TDI and try to pump my own diesel I get a ration of feces from the 'attendants'..

Now, granted there are advantages to having the kiddies at the pump fill up your diesel tank if you want to avoid smelling like a truck but most gaspumpingkids think that you you turn the pump on 'force feed', er, full speed, after all it works for gasoline, er gasahol.. Problem with that is that Number 2 foams. If you want a full tank instead of a half tank of diesel and a half tank of foam, you pump it yourself... ;-)

It figures that it was a Democrap that introduced this bag bill.. Totally in character...