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 ...
Ping to My #14. :)
Good by plastic bags.
please see post #16....your comment is why I felt the need to specify.
Why? And yes he is. People knew that when they voted for him, yet they still voted for him.
And it was the crazy libs that pushed the plastic bags on us.
Statist never change. Incremental moves toward their totalitarianism.
One of the damned thing blew onto the freeway and into my exhaust header.what a smelly mess.
“The effort is to combat litter because plastic bags do not biodegrade.”
This is the same crap stated by our lovely city govt and the soft headed liberals who support it. It had to be pointed out that the litter on the ground they couldn’t see from the seat of their cars was also not biodegradable. It is only appearance that matters to leftists, and a “fence flag” plastic bag is such a tiny fraction of the litter problem, but it’s all they see.
I suggest to all the leftists I speak with on the topic; Get out of your Prius and take the bag off the fence. If every Prius driving whiner removed just one plastic bag from a fence a month, there would be no plastic bags on fences.
This is simply conditioning folks. It’s designed to get people more and more used to authoritarian government and comply accordingly. Has nothing to do with saving the environment or what not.
I throw them away. I don’t give a crap about landfills. They are just future resource mines after the zombie apocalypse.
Its NY City and Albany. If you look at the county election map from 2016
NY State appears to be a Red State. But youre right
and the state votes for these scumbags and that is why I want out
Yeah, and what do you want to bet they gave Cuomo some free stock or stock options in that company.
Next it will be toilet paper tax!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can balance a basket on your head while riding or pulling your donkey.
A Sheryl Crow tax?
juggle
“What are people supposed to do?..................”
Make a revolutionary statement and start a thousand brushfires. Wait for a blizzard, and dump truckloads of plastic bags on government property.
Long Island says “Goodbye plastic bags,hello MS-13”.
What will happen if people start buying white kitchen garbage bags and use them at the check out, will he ban those also?
Why is there no discussion about the truly one time use black hefty bags?
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