Posted on 01/14/2019 2:51:43 PM PST by lowbridge
If the governor has his way, New Yorkers won't use plastic bags anymore.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a ban on plastic bags as part of this year's executive budget.
The effort is to combat litter because plastic bags do not biodegrade. Cuomo said Sunday that the ban will also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastic bag production and disposal - from the petroleum used to produce the bags to emissions from their transportation to landfills.
The governor said that reusable bags and exemptions will be applied "where appropriate."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnycentral.com ...
Lunatic.
First it was paper bags.
Now it’s plastic bags.
Cloth bags are unsanitary.
What are people supposed to do?..................
Between Newsom in CA, de Blaiso and Cuomo in NY, we seem to be raising up a crop of wanna be dictators.
It runs in the family.
His dad was a lunatic, too............
Without the ‘tators’ part...............
“What are people supposed to do?”
Do what Cuomo does and have a personal assistant go get groceries.
I’ll use cloth bags and simply wash them occasionally. Watching the plastic bags fly like ghosts when the Arizona desert wind blows is horrid.
Stores are now charging 5 cents for plastic bags but the cost of plastic bags are already in the price ,what a ripoff
The strangest thing is, if exposed to sunlight, plastic bags degrade quickly to near dust. A better way to take care of the plastic bags is to recycle them to another use. Plastic bags are made from a byproduct of refining organic oil. Newspaper and magazines btw, take centuries to degrade if they end up in landfills, maybe no different or worse than plastic.
Dumbarse New Yorkers vote these idiots into office so I guess they love living under an insane dictator.
bwahahah....it was the eco-commies that wanted “plastic” because it was “renewable” way back when and it would save the trees.
These commie fuq’s screw everything up.
Lunacy, but that being said, you would think that someone would be producing a cost competitive biodegradable bag by now.
LefTards won’t be happy until we’re all roaming around naked, living in caves and carrying things around in our hands.
And even THEN...they won’t be happy!
I, for one, use sturdy boxes and cloth bags for carrying ‘stuff.’ I have for years.
HOWEVER, were I ‘TOLD’ that I had to live the way I live, I’d tell ‘em to p*ss off, LOL!
In effect, Newsom seceeded from the union.
California should be nationalized and downgraded to territorial status under a military governor.
Nancy Pelosi and all elected to federal offices would be out of jobs. State communists could be thrown out of office. Tens of thousands could be rounded up and deported
biodegradable “plastic” type bag.
Calamexico is going to tax your drinking water.
So true. I have heard that possibly adding a small amt of sugar will decompose it realitivly quick.
Paper bags are 100% biodegradable.
I recycle mine.
I fill them with combustible trash, tie them up and toss them in the burn barrel
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