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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 think they were the first to ban paper bags too!


81 posted on 09/30/2014 11:12:03 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: defconw

“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.”

What is it with city people walking around picking up dog crap?

In my entire life I have never done that, or seen anyone else do so. It washes away when it rains, it isn’t something you have to move to a new location!


82 posted on 09/30/2014 11:13:25 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

California would be a lot more livable if instead of banning bags and flags they banned fags and hags. San Francisco would be a parking lot and Nancy Pelosi would be on the lam.


83 posted on 09/30/2014 11:19:06 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So then Californians will have to buy other bags to put their garbage in and bring lunch in.

Plastic can be reused. They have to cut down trees to make the paper ones.

Not too sure how healthy it is to bring last week's salmonella chicken drippings home in the same bag used this week to carry baby formula...

84 posted on 09/30/2014 11:21:19 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Nea Wood
I dunno about you, but I use those plastic bags for about everything.

Were they to be done away with in my state, I'd just exchange them for "Glad" or "Hefty". <>Politicians are stupid.

85 posted on 09/30/2014 11:21:58 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Headline for CNN:

California Braces for Unintended Consequences

86 posted on 09/30/2014 11:22:55 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: forgotten man

This is not a plastic bag ban. It is a tax on bags. The grocery stores will still offer bags, but you will have to pay for them. The UFCW union gets a piece of the tax. The good news is that the welfare class will have to pay too.

**The welfare peeps get them for free..so not only are we paying for our bags (if don’t bring in own) but paying for the moochers as well.


87 posted on 09/30/2014 11:23:41 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: Beagle8U; defconw

I realize I live in BFE, but don’t people in Cali cities have yards to walk their dogs in? You take the dog to a spot in the open, where the insects, sun and rain will quickly break the dog crap down to-fertilizer-I even do that here...

I can see people carrying around bags, picking up after their dogs in a place like NYC, but not in Cali...


88 posted on 09/30/2014 11:24:47 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: Beagle8U
I still bag the cat poop, it is the scoop able kind. The dog is on her own. But! In the city they will fine you if your dog poops and you leave it.
89 posted on 09/30/2014 11:25:32 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe I misremember but wasn’t California one of the
first states to institute the use of plastic bags,
to save the trees?


90 posted on 09/30/2014 11:25:38 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rwfromkansas

I agree... the trips to the car on grocery day... when living in an apartment through 2 locked doors and up 3 flights of stairs... it was enough to make me say, “I’m thinking Arby’s”. I managed 20 bags and a gallon of milk in one perilous trip one time, but due to light, lazy bagging by the skinnyjeaned girl doing the bagging it was doable so long as I had my key in-hand prior to loading up 2 bags per finger.

Life was a little easier when I moved.


91 posted on 09/30/2014 11:26:43 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Were they wrong then or are they wrong now?

Yes.


92 posted on 09/30/2014 11:27:14 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: texhenry

I thought about bringing a bunch of plastic bags stuffed with hundreds of more bags and stand outside the store and hand out bags to random people. As a protest.

Wonder if store would make you move?

Would cops hassle you for handing out free bags?

If this was an organized protest, would the media cover it?


93 posted on 09/30/2014 11:29:29 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ten years ago the moron socialists got uptight if you ordered a paper bag. People can just stuff things into their extra groovy clothe bags and the checkers never notice.


94 posted on 09/30/2014 11:30:32 AM PDT by jetson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmm....Cop cars parked at exits from grocery stores....


95 posted on 09/30/2014 11:32:16 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: defconw

I’m not a cat fan, so my experiences with them is something you want to hear about. I don’t live in a city, but lived close to one once and nobody picked up dog crap.

It seems an odd thing to do.


96 posted on 09/30/2014 11:32:50 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Far out! Yeah. Whut? Those guys are fags photo: those guys are fags hahafast.jpg Protectin' the planet and s***. Cool!
97 posted on 09/30/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Beagle8U

In Minneapolis/St. Paul, they will fine you for smoking on the side walk or leaving your car idle. There is no end to these sniveling bastards.


98 posted on 09/30/2014 11:38:04 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: tet68

tet, when attempting to understand the state of mind that is California, one must wear some flowers in one’s hair.

For example, Astroturf is an evil product of an evil chemical company, something like DuPont, right? ... Until San Fransicko recently decided it isn’t.
Now they’re `rapping’/having encounter sessions about replacing natural grass with Astroturf.

A few years from now, the Sodomites will decide that too many trees are dying so that voracious humans can eat, so a future council—chairman/womyn last name `Ent,’ maybe—will decree that single use plastic bags are the way to go.


99 posted on 09/30/2014 11:42:32 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Seattle Conservative

The easy solution is to gather all your food waste into a plastic bag, take a drive down to the more liberal places of town, and dump it out when nobody is looking. You’re composting, just not at your house.


100 posted on 09/30/2014 12:00:54 PM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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