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Posted on 05/04/2008 5:12:17 PM PDT by Stoat
Forget the canvas sacks at home? Shoppers at grocery, convenience and drug stores will pay the price starting Jan. 1, if the City Council approves. A family buying six bags of groceries a week would spend $62.40 a year in bag fees. The city will issue one free reusable shopping bag to each household.
"The answer to the question 'Paper or plastic?' should be 'Neither,' " Nickels said at a news conference. "Both harm the environment. Every piece of plastic ever made is still with us in the environment, and the best way to handle waste is not to create it in the first place."
The proposed fee, the first of its kind in the nation, is the latest green legislation from a mayor intent on making environmental stewardship his legacy.
Nickels and Conlin have been working on a "zero-waste" strategy to reduce trash and encourage recycling. They also announced Wednesday a proposed ban on plastic-foam food containers and cups at food-service businesses, starting Jan. 1. Nonrecyclable plastic containers and utensils would be banned in 2010.
"It's about the use of scarce resources, about pollution of our environment, about litter in our streets and parks and the costs, both economically and environmentally, of throwing away a piece of Earth we have an opportunity to protect and preserve," Conlin said at the news conference, which Councilmembers Tim Burgess and Sally Clark also attended.
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You're an idiot if you can't find a use for the bags.
I have two cats, and their box is cleaned out three times a day.
I bet you're the type who buys the expensive cinch-tie white plastic mega-bags!
If you are not, there is a box in most stores to recycle your bags.
Leave the rest of us alone!!!
Same people who want this poor Bitter, God Lovin, Magic negroe despising, good ole boy to give up his guns and F-350 pick-up cause we ain't inthe same elite intellectual club they have self elevated their worthless selves to.
I bet this individual is soooo concerned that they press for a helmet las for those of us who enjoy our scooters.
dirtbags.... no other word for them
Do you get a discount if you use hemp bags?
I use canvas bags that I’ve gatherred over the years, not so much to prevent waste but because they’re so strong I’ve never had one break. Intetrestingly, the box-boy always asks, “Paper or plastic?”. This, despite the pile of folded and empty canvas bags on the counter. And my usual response is, “Canvas”, as I point to the bags he’s missed.
We are now more officially "left" than even New York City or San Francisco. They can't conceivably bring any more shame onto us than they already have, over the last two full decades of unending public mortification.
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Wasn’t it the enviro-wackos who made us switch to plastic bags some 20 years ago? What’s the problem, now?
Thank you for injecting that bit of reason! :~)
Ditto...I hate it when my wife comes home from Kroger or WalMart with 8-10 bags that we have to throw away.
WHOLE FOODS gives 5 -10 cents per bag credit if you bring in any bag - even bags from Kroger.
I HATE WASTE OF ANY KIND.
But, I dont like govt getting this involved. I think more stores should follow Whole Foods’ lead on this...
I was in Taiwan, where they instituted a per bag charge (about 3 cents per).
One difference was they stopped putting everything you buy into a bag (for instance a bag of potato chips at 7/11).
Cuts down on a lot of garbage with just that.
Whether it's paper bags or political correctness in a larger sense, we need to quit buying into the premise until these folks at least propose a sensible alternative that they won't change in a years' time. Just because they seem to enjoy chasing their tails (many of them literally) doesn't mean I have to join them.
I use my own bags a lot. I don’t use bottled water most of the time. I have a water filter squeeze bottle and two Culligan jugs I can refill at Walmart. I also compost. However, there’s no recycling where I live so I try to buy more glass than plastic. I think a person can be smart about green living. People don’t like to be TOLD what to do.
Besides, the plastic bags are recycled as liners for my juice machine then I use that same bag to clean out the catbox, never in reverse ;o) I usually pick extra plastic bags out of the plastic bag recycling bin at Walmart.
canvas bags... great for shoplifters!
I was thinking the very same thing.
I'm already paying for them as part of the price of the groceries. Will they now start demanding that grocery stores charge for parking in the lot at the store, so that the city can add a a tax to the parking fee 'to discourage this horrible business of driving to the grocery store'?
You’ll make up the cost of the bags in gasoline in short order.
Gas is well over $4.00 a gallon here in LA.
I don’t even buy trash bags anymore. I use the paper and plastic bags I get when I shop.
I don’t think that will satisfy them. They’ll want more concessions than even that.
Stupidity on parade.
Or Socialism on parade; same thing :-)
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