What?!!
Then ah'll hafta go 'round all nekkid!
Posted on 04/12/2007 11:52:43 AM PDT by llevrok
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday agreed to study a ban on petroleum-based plastic shopping bags that cause pollution and can be harmful to marine creatures. Supervisors Yvonne Burke and Zev Yaroslavsky asked the Department of Public Works to determine the pros and cons of adopting a policy and to assess how paper and plastic bags are recycled within the county.
"It is a very interesting and a very challenging problem that we have," said Donald Wolfe, director of Public Works.
Biodegradable plastic bags, typically made from corn or potato starch, are considered to have less of an impact on the environment.
San Francisco supervisors banned plastic grocery bags two weeks ago.
Jennifer Forkish of the California Grocers Association said the feasibility study is "premature."
"The impacts of the ordinance passed by the city of San Francisco are nowhere close to being ready for evaluation," Forkish said.
-Eric
What happened to be responsible and dispose of things properly? Oh yeah, we’re in the nanny state.
LA just can’t stand to let SF be the more liberal city.
These are the same asshats that were screaming for plastic bags years ago, as a matter of fact because of their screaming we ended up with plastic and you actually had to request paper. Now they are pushing paper and trying to pretend they never pushed plastic, it’s the oil companies don’t ya know(according to the new gospel by the liberal idiots we let survive in the country).
They get thrown aside and end up blowing everywhere. They get snagged on trees and bushes beside the road and look terrible.
Add in the bags of fast food trash, bottles (no deposit state), appliances and furniture and our local roads look like part of the dump.
I was sitting on the porch one morning enjoying the day and a fat broad drive by and tossed a fast food bag out the window and into my yard. I hollered “hey” and she flipped me the bird as she kept on going. What a time not to have my glasses on, couldn’t get the tag number.
You can’t accuse these people of taking their eye off the ball.
Agreed, I thought the reason for the switch to plastic was to safe all those trees that were being murdered.
Nothing like tackling the important problems of our time. Thank goodness we have these great minds in our country that will see us through the trying days ahead.
Well, since LA has been taken over by Illegals, the plastic bags are everywhere...along freeways, in the river, blowing around with every windstorm.
I happened to agree with this.
They should also ban Migrant SUVs...oops, I mean shopping carts. I was reading how Burbank is about to start fining THE STORES if their shopping carts are found off property....
oh, geez, lol.
i can’t believe this plastic crusade is alive again
What a “B” that lady was. I can’t stand litter myself but haven’t done much serious picking up of other’s people stuff in awhile, but still tidy up a little bit. Young people are the worst offenders. I get mad at my kids if they throw their trash on the ground—I don’t tolerate it.
“You can’t accuse these people of taking their eye off the ball.”
Which ball? THese finatics run from one dilemma to another.
i love my plastic bags. THey come in handy at home, and i recycle the ones i don’t need.
paper bags bring roaches in.
I just police the grocery store bagger who puts one item in a sack, and another one item in another sack. I tell him to fill the sacks up.
I guess LA County has solved its budgetary, transportation, crime and other HIGHER-priority woes. Good to know, then, that it’s wasting no time getting on to the OBVIOUS next issue, the peril of plastic grocery bags.
These finatics run from one dilemma to another.
These fools are a parasite upon our country - too bad the people are not smart enough to just tell these idiot losers where to go and ignore them.
Confronting the most important issues of our time. Whatever we’re paying them, it isn’t enough.
It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
Plastics are produced from the waste products of oil refining.
It would take approximately seven trucks to transport the same number of paper bags as can be transported by a single truck full of plastic bags.
They’ve got so many balls in the air. It disturbs my ADD.
I was hanging with Freeper par excellence BlueCrab last night, and I brought my adult beverages to the gathering in a blue plastic grocery bag. Inevitably, the subject of the ban on those bags in San Francisco came up, to which he exclaimed heartily:
“Ban fags, not bags!”.
Needless to say, even though I don’t care for the sentiment, I and the other guy hanging with BlueCrab started laughing uproariously.
When I was again able to speak, I asked BlueCrab if he had coined the expression, and he thought that he had.
I told him on the next grocery bag thread, I would out him and his slogan. I did not lie.
BlueCrab (also known by a few as Bud King - for reasons a few might guess) - This Bud’s for you.
It’s time for another big earthquake to hit. Maybe they can all blame tectonic plate shifting on Bush as well.
Why?
I'll tell you why.
Because they are Liberals. They no longer believe in America, if they ever did. They no longer subscribe to our way of life, accept our Constitution, or respect the Liberty it recognizes as our birthright. They are only "Americans" in the sense of living within our borders, not because they reflect and honor its deepest values. Many of them have a very different idea of what America is, or ought to be, and it is a place where you can ban things you don't like or censor speech with which you disagree, or shut down a business because you don't care for its product or the people running it
That is not America: it's Nazi Germany. Or was.
Oh, how funny. That Glenn Beck is a card.
Well, that about wraps it up, doesn’t it?
Wow - I believe they’ve found a constant source for reasearch study/GRANT MONEY just in this one little subject. I wonder if my favorite sucker-of-all-taxpayer-money, the ethanol folks, will start making bags out of corn husks. They need more bags to carry their gubmint money in.
Have they tried to make them out of tofu?
Better check what’s going to happen if all bags are made of potato starch, or whatever. It’ll mean a major change in the ecology and economy, more likely than not, as plastic bag makers, and related businesses are put out of business while farmers clear old growth forest to plant potatos.
Where did anyone get the idea that bureaucrats and politicians are competent to arrange either ecologies or economies? They’ll screw something up for sure, and then they’ll need more money to fix their screw up, even though fixing anything is beyond their ability. Way beyond.
Off with their funding!
Jennifer Forkish of the California Grocers Association said the feasibility study is “premature.”
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Grocers love plastic they cost much less per bag....ever notice Walmart only uses plastic (really low cost crappy) bags.
Oh crap...the insanity moves south.
I heard this broadcast and laughed myself silly.
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