Posted on 09/30/2014 9:50:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.
Plastic bags will be phased out of large grocery stores starting next year and convenience stores and pharmacies in 2016. The legislation is meant to encourage consumers to bring their own bags and as a way to reduce litter.
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How about styrofoam coffee cups?
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Those are fine. For saluting Marines.
(ba dum Shish!)
The super rich don’t even do their own grocery shopping, staff does it, stopping at the elite market for some Pate and a bottle of wine, is not like occasionally needing two carts and filling up the trunk.
Doing away with our grocery bags is something that only people out of touch with our lives could have promoted and imposed on us.
Yes.
this may inspire the state splitting in two ....or three...
Sane California....and Insane California...
George Carlin.
No. The legislation is meant to FORCE consumers into the state-approved action.
Great! More work for loggers and the folks at the paper mill!!
“...The bill was amended to waive fees for customers who are on public assistance...”
Of course. No more plastic bags, no more equality.
Aren’t trash bags single use plastic bags? What do you use for trash?
There's a reason Chinese restaurants and stores use plastic bags. I can't tell you how many times I've gotten take-out food, or taken home leftovers from a restaurant, to find a spill of gravy or soup inside once I got home. The plastic nicely contains the spills. Not so with paper or canvas bags, yuck. Paper or plastic, each has its use. Now we will suffer yet again because of enviro-nuts.
California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Bags
I guess that means all those in Hollywood will have to refrain from plastic surgery....such a shame to have our beloved movie stars banned /S
I suppose this will move north, like many other bills that get passed in CA. The City of Seattle banned plastic bags a couple of years ago and the City of Issaquah did a year or two ago. Wouldn’t surprise me if this went state-wide in WA State in the next few years, too. I do have re-usable cloth bags and keep them in my car, but I use the plastic bags from stores for my garbage (don’t normally have much - don’t eat much at home and recycle a lot).
Heard on the radio that the City of Seattle is going to start having the garbage collectors go through people’s garbage and if there’s a lot of food waste, they’ll get fined as food waste should go in a compost. What if a resident doesn’t want to have a compost. Seems to me that a compost with a lot of food waste could attract rats and/or other creatures.
Gee, let’s have Big Brother Government monitor our lives some more. Next they’ll be going through our garbage to make sure that we eat what Michelle wants us to eat and we’ll get fined if they see an ice cream container in our garbage.
Bingo!
I am old enough to remember a trash incinerator in my Grandma’s backyard in Los Angeles.
So now, paper bags and the reusable cloth bags are a state enforced profit center. Thanks Moonbeam! A-hole.
No plastic bag in my house is “single use”... I used 2 just this morning when cleaning the cat litterbox. With the clumping corncob litter, I just dump it in the burnbarrel and incinerate it with the trash.
She said it didn't, except that they had to use paper bags for groceries, now, and not plastic.
So, the plastic fills landfills and sea turtles swallow them. But, the paper bags cause the death of trees. Sheesh!
There will be a grandfather clause for her.
Yep. I used them to wrap dirty diapers when I was out and about when the kids were babies.
They are great for picking up after fido, too.
Of course. No more plastic bags, no more equality.
NP PLASTIC NO PEACE!!!!!!
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