Posted on 03/14/2013 6:13:10 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Attention shoppers! The price of paper is going up across Santa Cruz, and this time you're probably going to notice it.
With Watsonville's plastic bag ban under way and similar laws in Capitola and Santa Cruz poised to go into effect in April, a county prohibition on plastic to-go bags nears a first anniversary and an evolutionary step: on March 20, the price of a paper bag is rising from 10 cents to 25 cents.
"We expect that 25 cents is going to get the attention of some people who may not have noticed the dime, and of course that's the intent," said Tim Goncharoff, a county resource planner. "We don't really think it's going to be a hardship for people."
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
The charge imposed pursuant to this section shall not be applied to customers participating in the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children, the State Department of Social Services Food Stamp program, or other govemment- subsidized purchase programs for low-income residents. E. Notwithstanding the fee to be charged in Section 5.48.020(C)
So not only do I get to pay for these people's groceries I also subsidize the bag the put them in.
Lighten up. You’re also thereby subsidizing their luggage, backpacks, closets, trashcans, raingear, door mats and heat source.
Plastic bags — another Lib idea that looked so good on paper {snicker}.
I recall paper bags.
I recall paper or plastic? Thanks to the treehuggers.
Now, many those ‘reusable’ bags have been found to contain bacteria contamination, some of which can be deadly.
Reusable bags — another Lib idea that looked good on paper {snicker}.
If these do-good-ers would just sit down, shut up, and leave the rest of us alone, things would be a lot better for everyone.
I’m old enough to remember when men and bags were free.
I’ll just back up to the store and they can toss it loose into my hatchback.............
simple cure, keep toting the same ones back for them to fill ditto goes for the plastic bags
I like the idea of the home made cloth bags, stronger, and you can make them in the size you want, wash them as often as necessary too. I wrap my meats in produce bags to reduce contamination.
You also are paying for the tons of cookies, candy, soda, bottled drinks, chips etc they fill their carts with. All non-essential or healthy foods. These items should NOT be part of food stamps program. Just as TP or laundry soap is not a part of the program, and I’d consider those 2 items more a necessity than cookies, candy, soda, or chips. And with the cash back they go buy lottery tickets, booze or cigs...I see it all the time here in Memphis. It is the same all over the USA in every city or berg where people are on this program.
Nor do they pay sales tax if on food stamps!
My niece(Aurora)just graduated from UC Santa Cruz.She is working in a bakery in San Diego.
I was in San Francisco a little while ago and I went to CVS. I bought a couple of clif bars, a pint of ice cream, and a dr. pepper. It was about three blocks to my hotel and it was a lot to carry in my arms, plus I didn’t want to get my hands cold carrying the ice cream. The woman rang up all of my stuff and left it sitting on the counter. So I looked at it for a second, and said, “Well, can I have a bag?” And then she took all my stuff and put it in one of those huge paper grocery sacks, like you used to get in the old days.
At the time, I thought that was kind of ridiculous, putting that little amount of stuff in a huge paper bag, but I didn’t think anything else about it until a week or so later when I was reading an article that happened to mention that there was a plastic bag ban in San Francisco. I laughed. Who would ever live there?
This here green thing is the king of crocks. They don’t go after the right things.
Disposable DIAPERS!
http://www.livestrong.com/article/149890-environmental-impact-of-disposable-diapers/
500 years to decompose
I’m a senior citizen I have been recycling all my life, I got hand me down clothes, which then got handed down again if they were still in decent shape or made into quilts. I used cloth diapers, washed them and reused them. Bought our clothes at rummage sales, then passed them down to other family members when the boys out grew them. I reuse plastic butter or lunch meat containers for left overs, or for freezing things. Wash out non contaminated plastic zip lock bags. Only run my dish washer when full. Ditto goes for the washer.
Have a reusable water bottle, I refuse to pay through the nose for water.
Recycle all the cans, bottles, glass and paper in the thing the city provides. Even the soda can tabs go to a charity and the education labels. It is not mandatory here yet, but it makes sense to not put it in the landfill in the first place. Now if only the IDIOTS who run our government would turn these items into ELECTRIC POWER it would cut our electric bills one would think. Or let us burn them ourselves there would be less in the landfills to decompose.
Cloth bags aren’t required in our area, but we got so many as free gifts and handouts from church or at business fairs that we use them every time we go to the store.
Strangely, we still have a cupboard next to the sink that is filled with plastic bags we haven’t used yet. We use the bags as trash bags for the bathrooms, laundry room, cleaning up kitty litter, and whenever I need one for my work lunch. I think it may still be years until we run out.
I need to forward this to my county Supervisor and see if there is some way we can get rid of Tim Goncharoff. Or at least introduce him to some "hardship."
International Plastics, Inc. sells good “T-bags” (with handles) for $17.50 per thousand. I gave them away for Christmas here in Paso Robles.
Food-borne illness is UP 46% in Emergency Rooms in San Francisco (leader of the ridiculous plastic bag ban), and an additional 10 food-borne illness deaths per year.
NOTHING will ever make these idiots stop “do-gooding”...
Thank you for the International Plastics info. I think I will get some, and stash them in my car.
I have decided to stop recycling my trash. We have “blue bins” we are supposed to put our recyclables in - paper, cardboard, tin cans, etc. I keep a paper bag sitting upright to contain all these items, and when it is full, I throw the whole thing in the “blue bin.”
Well, that’s over with. If I have to start buying paper bags to cooperate, I’m done. It’s all going in the trash, now. And I’ll get 1000 t-bags (less than 2 cents a bag) for my shopping, and they can all just cry over it.
An entreprizing young lad could make a buck selling paper bags for 10 cents at these store locations, unless there illegal to sell.
There should be a 25 cent tax on every paper copy of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. The environmental destruction caused by newspaper distribution is off the charts.
Remember in California nothing happens unless someone makes money off it.It’s the west cost branch of Cook county.
behaviour modification is nothing new to the herds of shoppers here in California. san jose wants to eradicate styrofoam .. a dime a paper sack ? sad. how many industries will the greens kill?
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