Posted on 03/01/2020 1:49:03 PM PST by conservative98
Here’s where you can stuff your plastic-bag ban.
New Yorkers were forced to begin grappling with a new shopping reality Sunday as the state’s ban on plastic shopping bags kicked in — and not many people were happy about it.
“I think it’s ridiculous,” letter-carrier Scott Kimmel, 56, said while shopping at the Whitestone Target in College Point, Queens. “I understand about ‘conserve, take care of the environment,’ but c’mon!”
About half the shoppers seen by The Post on the first day of the bag ban, including Kimmel, were compensating by bringing their own bags from home, while another quarter opted to just go bagless rather than pay the 5-cent paper-bag fee allowed under the law, and the remaining 25 percent coughed up the nickel charge per bag.
“I was totally shocked,” Target shopper Richie Alvarez, 49, said of the move. “This is what our world is coming to. Yeah, they charged me extra for the bag. That’s why I only took one. It would normally be two or three bags.”
The law, passed by state lawmakers last year, bars single-use plastic bags at any retailer — from supermarkets to bodegas — that collects sales tax at their store.
It allows shoppers to bring bags from home, buy a reusable bag at the store, or pay the 5-cent fee for paper bags.
Although it went into effect Sunday, state officials said they won’t bring the hammer down on retailers who ignore the law until April, when fines could start to kick in.
“People don’t want to hear this,” said the manager of C-Town Supermarket on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, who only identified himself as Henry. “They’re not happy. At least I have a month to break them in. We’re trying to get cheap mesh bags for them. We’ll see.”
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New York gets the liberal government it voted for.
are bag ladies exempt?
It’s a part of their culture.
Now they can pick up their dog crap with their hands...lol
What if humans evolved for the purpose of providing the Earth with plastic?
The Earth doesn’t care about plastic bags anymore than it cares about a million year asteroid bombardment.
Does this ban include all plastic bags?
My mamma always said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Leftist “Planet more important than People”.
Soon but not yet, they’ll use “Planet” as an excuse to kill people.
In the meantime, they’re “Saving the Planet” by not letting you use plastic begs for you groceries. The utter height of stupidity. And so many people buy it. Why? “Well the government says it, it must be true.” That right there is the stupidest thing of all.
IF they keep voting for the insane RATs there, they’ll be fortunate if there is even a store left to go to. Bags will be the least of their problems.
Enjoy your “wokeness”.
Kill the trees plus another tax on the people, poor and all.
They weren't FORCED into doing anything. They voted the people who passed that legislation into office. They buttered their bread, now they have to lie down in it.
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Liberals won’t be happy until we are walking down dirt roads, carrying our food in baskets on top of our heads.
“Soon but not yet, they’ll use “Planet” as an excuse to kill people.”
Murderous Billy Bob Ayers, Obummer Boy’s commie/fascist/anarchist buddy, already has plans to kill 25,000,000 Americans.
Of course the ruling class will be able to do what they want. Just like they did under the Obama Administration. I very much dislike the Leftists.
Sayyyyy, with China mostly shut down, will the amount of plastics flowing into the oceans from Chinese rivers drop?
“What if humans evolved for the purpose of providing the Earth with plastic?”
George Carlin - yeah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxNgfVzAvo&feature=youtu.be&t=204
” We’re trying to get cheap mesh bags for them. “
Sorry, those “were” made in China.
...Barefoot...
Another revenue stream for the crooks, bringing in plastic bags with the cigarettes from out-of-state. Have a kid sit in the parking lot and sell at a penny or two apiece. Only have 50 or so on him if the cops hassle. Arrest him for a buck?
Hey Andy, sure you aren’t Fredo?
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