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LA City Council Approves Ban On Single-Use Plastic Bags
CBS) ^ | May 23, 2012 12:51 PM

Posted on 05/23/2012 2:44:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: BenLurkin

which agency will handle actual enforcement ? :

http://patriotpost.us/reference/california-agencies/


21 posted on 05/23/2012 3:19:54 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: LukeL

“Those bags become trash bags for the...”

So, instead of passing a law banning the grocery bags, just pass a law prohibiting use of any other bags for trash disposal. Groceries in - garbage out. It’s a win-win!


22 posted on 05/23/2012 3:31:58 PM PDT by ngat
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To: LukeL

They are used for everything at our house too. The excess bags are then taken to my grocery store who has a container right by the front door for them.
Idiots.


23 posted on 05/23/2012 3:38:22 PM PDT by sheana
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To: BenLurkin

Austin Silly council is doing something similar. For now, I think it is $.05 per plastic or paper bag with both to be banned in the next few years.


24 posted on 05/23/2012 3:41:30 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (It's time to take out the trash in DC.)
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To: Gettin Betta

I use mine to hold the receptacles from my cat’s LitterMaid litter box. It would be hard to do without them.


25 posted on 05/23/2012 3:45:02 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: lormand
BYOB - bring your own bacteria

Indeed. Commanding people to use reusable bags is a great way to speed disease. Imagine all these bags being placed on floors, on sidewalks, in piles of dog poop, etc. Now all these bags come back to the store where they all go on the conveyor belt with your fresh produce.

This happy horse sh** will continue for a few years until the idiots notice there is a marked increase in salmonella and food poisoning.

26 posted on 05/23/2012 3:47:47 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Meh.)
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To: BenLurkin
wait till they start dragging filthy cloth bags across the checkout counters and people start getting sick... who will get sued, the store??? of course they will
27 posted on 05/23/2012 4:09:44 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: BenLurkin; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; AmericaUnite; ...
The city of Los Angeles has voted to ban the sale of plastic bags. Do you approve?

Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers' freedom of choice.

Read the story and: FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)

28 posted on 05/23/2012 4:14:50 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: BenLurkin

We never recycle plastic bags in our house but reuse almost every one of them.

Garbage can liners
Carry alls (yes we’ve gone on vacation packing only plastic bags in the back of the car - it’s call vacationing on a superbudget)
Carrying things, like books and such or things to people’s houses.
Packing material - when I ship a book or such to someone, I wrap it in a plastic bag first for water protection
Dog poopy

Guess it’s time to start hoarding.


29 posted on 05/23/2012 4:35:16 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: bboop

LOL. I guess it passed them by that condoms are just mini plastic bags (the non biodegradable kind) packed in plastic, that become biohazards as well.

I don’t get how people can fall for this idiocy.


30 posted on 05/23/2012 4:37:51 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Gettin Betta
Guess I’ll have to pick my dog’s poop and line the small trash cans with BRAND NEW plastic bags (that will be used once) What morons!

Anyone who thinks those bags are really single use isn't using the brains God gave them.

31 posted on 05/23/2012 4:43:55 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: BenLurkin

The liberal county that I am stuck in passed this rule January 1st. What a pain. I purchased the cloth bags on Ebay (making sure that no store or even the school system received one red cent from me). On grocery day, I have to do a load of laundry for the bags that contain any meat products (sometimes it is six bags since not all the meat stuff goes into one bag). The worst part is remembering to keep them in your car. You need them for every store.. Rite Aid, Sears, CVS etc.. I also used the plastic bags you use to get at store for the small trash cans, dog poop, etc... so they were purchased (1,000 at a time on Ebay). If LA passes this rule... it will not be liked by many. IMHO.


32 posted on 05/23/2012 5:07:43 PM PDT by momtothree
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To: BenLurkin

Why do they always come up with stupid answer choices for their poll questions?

Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.

What is wrong with a simple YES or No for the choices.

If they are going to make a statement out of it, how about this instead.

Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, this will do nothing to safeguard the environment.

Or

Yes, we should interfere with shoppers freedom of choice.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.

Or how about a third answer

Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers’ freedom of choice.
None of the answers fit my position. The poll is biased.


33 posted on 05/23/2012 5:21:33 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pretty soon they will wonder why there is so much dog doo on the grass at the parks and peoples lawns. lol

Ah Ha! A new bureaucracy to ticket the dog walkers who leave the poo!


34 posted on 05/23/2012 7:03:48 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: BenLurkin

Thank you! I have been trying to tell people that the reason we have plastic bags in the first place, is because the liberals pushed them on us years ago. They wanted to save the rainforests and trees, so they forced the use of plastic bags.

Now those same liberals are in effect admitting they were wrong all those years ago, aren’t they? Plastic bags were not the answer were they?

Now, let’s see if any other liberal solutions to any problems, after we see those solutions implemented, turn out to be the answer to the original problem.


35 posted on 05/23/2012 7:38:58 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BenLurkin
Paper bags would also cost customers 10 cents.

How are they going to enforce this? Is the city of LA going to be the distributors of paper bags now? Will there be a paper bag czar? Is the paper bag ten cent fee a tax? How will they collect that tax? How do they know how to tax a retailer for a bag? Can a retailer not charge 10 cents? Who's to know - and how?

How do I apply for the job of 'paper bag czar'? Sounds like a nifty HACK job /sarc:>)

36 posted on 05/23/2012 8:14:53 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: libertarian27

LA will make the retailers get the .10cents


37 posted on 05/23/2012 8:38:19 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: leapfrog0202
Yep, without exception, all these 'good intentions' just spread pain and misery to everyone, in so many ways.

Tobacco taxes are another good example of what you are talking about, except that everyone must eventually go to a grocery store and shop and not everyone has to smoke.

38 posted on 05/24/2012 8:43:34 AM PDT by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: 6SJ7
I always ask for paper bags when I grocery shop. It helps keep the produce in the bags when I am doing > 2G turns in my SUV while getting 2mpg.

Nobody knows where the bags have been from the stench-hippy in front of you in the line. The bag boy touches the stench-hippy's bags, then guess who's produce he is handling next?

I forsee in the near future that these enviro-nuts will change course because the need to continuously wash your BYOB bag will cause global warming because we are using too much water.

Look for all disposable containers of any kind to be targetted soon.

39 posted on 05/24/2012 8:51:27 AM PDT by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: BenLurkin

Hang one of these bags on your clothes line. They turn to dust in a matter of days here in the Florida sun.


40 posted on 05/24/2012 9:33:52 AM PDT by poobear
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