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California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Bags
ABC News ^ | September 30, 2014 | By FENIT NIRAPPIL

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bagban; california
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I know no one, including myself, who didn’t keep those bags and use them again, for lining wastebaskets, for dog walks, cleaning cat boxes. Anything.

Now we have to buy rolls of small plastic bags to do the same thing.

Actually, the reusable shopping bags for grocery shopping are significantly better. They hold a nicer shape, allowing more protection of the contents, and you can pack them to your own strength, good for the strong and the not so strong. If they re-allowed the plastic, I’d still use reusables because with four kids we have a lot of groceries and they are truly better. Some go in the wash nicely and some others can be sprayed clean inside. Also, if you double bag your meats, you’re not getting E. coli from them.


61 posted on 09/30/2014 10:31:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: morphing libertarian

Now we’ll use more
Energy and water washing canvas bags regularly in hot water


62 posted on 09/30/2014 10:32:20 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The production of paper consumes much more resources, and produces much more waste than plastic, even if the recycling is taken into account.


63 posted on 09/30/2014 10:33:25 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought that california decided to join mexico? What does this environut nonsense have to do with us gringos here in the US?


64 posted on 09/30/2014 10:33:26 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Parmy

We vacationed at the Outer banks of North Carolina a few years ago, and they have a ban on plastic bags there(apparently). At the only two big grocery stores in our area, they only had paper bags, and it sucked. We were on vacation though, so we didn’t really care, but if we had to put up with that on a daily basis, it would be a terrible inconvenience.


65 posted on 09/30/2014 10:34:55 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: KoRn

Morgan Hill passed its own ban on one-time use plastic bags a few months ago. Within weeks, I saw that one store was still using plastic bags — Now, though, the bags were colored green and labeled “Reusable”. Gee, I guess that makes them legal, doesn’t it? :=)


66 posted on 09/30/2014 10:39:40 AM PDT by Bob
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To: rwfromkansas

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/06/reusable-grocery-bag-germs/4341739/


67 posted on 09/30/2014 10:40:05 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: KoRn; Grampa Dave; tubebender; hedgetrimmer; forester; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; dixiechick2000

Couldn’t we reduce much more litter by placing a WalMart plastic bag gently down over Moonbeam’s bald head???


68 posted on 09/30/2014 10:41:32 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Put a plastic shopping bag over the Governor's bald head!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess hospitals have to go back to glass IV bottles.


69 posted on 09/30/2014 10:42:28 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Glue Sniffers will be very upset , LOL


70 posted on 09/30/2014 10:46:03 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: SierraWasp
Couldn’t we reduce much more litter by placing a WalMart plastic bag gently down over Moonbeam’s bald head???

Well, he would certainly need a litter if we did, literally.

71 posted on 09/30/2014 10:46:19 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Democrats: the Party of slavery to the immensely wealthy for over 200 years.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
California Becomes First State to Ban Plastic Bags

Weren't they the first to ban brown PAPER bags...in the 70's...due to the tree huggers??!

72 posted on 09/30/2014 10:46:26 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: RightGeek

I don’t just randomly put stuff in there; it’s still bagged and protected from getting germs. Even if there are germs, just wipe it out once a month with a disinfectant wipe.

That is an issue though if you don’t use them safely.


73 posted on 09/30/2014 10:46:36 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Seattle Conservative

My kook neighbors and ex-phb-ette control freak would be fighting to be the first in line for that position. They would do it probably for free.

My wife has a ton of those bacteria bags. I hate them.


74 posted on 09/30/2014 10:48:20 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Illegal aliens: OK

Plastic Bags: Not OK


75 posted on 09/30/2014 10:49:20 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What are they going to put their pet poop in? I don't ever plan on being in Cali. But I guess it will be prudent to pack rubber boots, if I ever visit.
76 posted on 09/30/2014 10:53:23 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: texhenry

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77 posted on 09/30/2014 10:55:04 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Carry_Okie

EeeeeeeYeeeeeeew!!! That was 2/3rds of a PUN… PU!!! (snort!)


78 posted on 09/30/2014 10:58:46 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Put a plastic shopping bag over the Governor's bald head!!!)
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To: rwfromkansas

“You should have your things already in boxes anyway aside from fruit” And what about veggies?

The only boxes in my grocery cart do not contain food for human consumption-many of us prefer nice, fresh foods to canned, frozen and boxed processed stuff-and that goes better in plastic bags than cloth ones that get leaked into-germy and unsanitary, and fall apart in the washer with the bleach and hot water needed to sanitize them. I take the cloth bags to the dollar store to put toiletries and other non-food items in, so they do get used here, just never, ever for food...

Paper bags leak and disintegrate, especially when you transport them the 20+ miles from the nearest grocery store, leaving a mess of icky wet paper in the truck or SUV.

Unless they were used to transport packages of meat, plastic bags are recycled to clean the cat litter box, line most of the trash cans, empty the vacuum, consolidate small tools, etc-nothing wasted.


79 posted on 09/30/2014 11:06:09 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up yoiur boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: lowbridge

I should have known. :)


80 posted on 09/30/2014 11:08:24 AM PDT by texhenry
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