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
Posted on 05/23/2012 2:44:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a proposal to ban single-use plastic bags across the city.
The ban was approved 13-1 and will affect 7,500 grocery stores in the city.
Large retailers will have six months to phase out the bags, while small retailers would have one year. Paper bags would also cost customers 10 cents.
City Councilman Eric Garcetti, who recently announced his candidacy for the mayor of L.A., told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO less than 5 percent of the bags used across the city ever reach a recycling bin.
"Tese plastic bags clog our landfills, they clog drainage systems, they litter neighborhoods, and go out to the ocean too where they cause damage to marine life,” said Garcetti.
Large grocery stores will have six months to enact the ban. Smaller stores will have a year to begin charging customers for the bags.
Other Southland cities such as Santa Monica and Long Beach already have similar bans in place.
Roughly two billion plastic bags and 400 million paper bags are distributed throughout the city every year.
Once in effect, Los Angeles will be the largest U.S. city to enact a plastic bag ban.
which agency will handle actual enforcement ? :
http://patriotpost.us/reference/california-agencies/
“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!
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.
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.
I use mine to hold the receptacles from my cat’s LitterMaid litter box. It would be hard to do without them.
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.
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
Yes, we must safeguard the environment.
No, it interferes with shoppers' freedom of choice.
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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.
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.
Anyone who thinks those bags are really single use isn't using the brains God gave them.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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:>)
LA will make the retailers get the .10cents
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.
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.
Hang one of these bags on your clothes line. They turn to dust in a matter of days here in the Florida sun.
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