Posted on 08/30/2014 1:29:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
California lawmakers have approved a measure that would make the state the first to impose a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.
SB270 cleared the Senate on a 22-15 vote Friday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown. It was approved by the Assembly a day earlier. …
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I remember going to the county landfill (trash dump)several years ago after a particularly windy storm system passed through. The leeward side was a surreal landscape of trees, bushes and brush all with plastic bags trapped in their branches. I wondered at the time how long it would remain like that. I’m not sure exactly when the landscape became free of the bags but eventually it did.
LOL…Clueless CA, up to its eyeballs in illegals and Marxists, and rapidly descending to third-world status, passes icky little laws such as a ban on plastic bags, while the Left is decimating the economy of the state. CA will achieve Detroit status in our lifetime.
Weesach, or Huisache bush
However, plastic bags made in Mexico are welcome in California.
My wife washes them out and reuses....not because she’s enviromentally conscious but because she’s a tight a$$.
Huisache?
No, those are not Huisache either. Huisache have very tiny leaves and those shown have very long leaves. That type of tree also has a green trunk and limbs.
The name of the tree (excuse the spelling) sounds like “waheia.”
They’ve got it all backwards. It should be a Democrat politician bagman ban.
It takes 84 times more energy to recycle a paper bag than a plastic one. Idiots.
We’ve solved our massive budget deficit out here, y’see, and have decided that illegal immigration is not an issue, so nonsense like this is only problem we have left to tackle.
There’s been such a ban in Los Angeles County too. This is the first STATE to do so. The idiots in Sacramento want to make sure it’s a pain in the ass for all of us from Crescent City to Calexico.
And I heard that paper grocery bags are going to cost 10 cents each. Sooooooo...which politician’s cousin is invested in manufacturing paper bags?
They’re banning the 30 gal black plastic bags?!!! THOSE are single use bags!
The little white grocery bags get multiple uses in my household. I store stuff in them also. After one year indoors, those bags have to be replaced because they fall apart.
The problem with the grocery bags is their color. If they were black, they wouldn’t be so visible and the libs wouldn’t see them.
The illegals use plastic bags for virtually all transportation purposes.
Can’t wash them here in commiefornica because we have no water either!
It isn’t JUST the plastic ban but the other rules, pages and pages of rules, about other bags. It is written by retarded adults.
Can’t do this, can’t do that....
Kalifornia Kontrol-freaks.
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