Posted on 07/23/2008 4:36:20 PM PDT by LAforme2008
The council plans to ban plastic carryout bags in the city's stores by 2010, unless the state imposes a 25-cent fee on those who request them.
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yeah cutting down trees for paper bags is way better for the environment than recycled plastic bags...
Oh yeah, that’ll work.
Charging people for grocery bags will really irritate most everyone, and few want to haul around their own bags, especially in a sprawling metropolis like LA when shopping is sometimes not planned and is done because the store “is on the way home.”
I can see it all now — a few supporters will love it — like Whole Foods shoppers. But what happens when people stop buying much to try to keep their own bags (or paper bags they are charged for) to a bare minimum?
Anyone think the stores will be thrilled to sell fewer goods during shopping trips? I don’t — I give this nonsense about 6 months in practice before it is repealed.
Do a web search on Ocean Trash, the info is shocking on how plastics have polluted the oceans.
guess there’s going to be a lot more dog bleep on the streets of LA since people won’t have anything to pick it up with.
well..Ziploc bags work just fine for that.
What are all the crimmigrants going to carry their lunches in?
I do not understand how they can force this on people. If the store owns the plastic bags it is their property. They have the right to give their property away. Now if you believe all property belongs to the government, sure the government can set the selling place.
hmmm..or you could just buy the cheap re-useable bags at the store and use them.
Just a thought....
All kinds of trash everywhere. Lets just ban everything. Yea!! Thats the ticket!
Now, as in so many things the liberals try to "improve," we've come 'round again, right back where we started.
Progress to a liberal is running full speed in a circle.
that’s a good,
capitalist idea!
one that will piss off enviro’s.
next the LA city council will pass a ban on stores and homes in LA
so how is denying me a plastic bag at the supermarket going to keep cruise ships etc. from dumping their trash in the ocean, and if there is so much plastic just floating out there in one place in the ocean go skim it off and sell it for profit..
Damn....there goes my matched luggage supply.
bingo!
They claims we were destroying the Rain Forest. Then we were strangling the poor sea lions with plastic. And now they want to force us to buy burlap sacks and have to schlep them back to the store over and over again. I’ll be waiting for the news that burlap causes cancer and we’ll need to move to back to paper bags.
Bingo! We have a prime contender for Insightful Post Of The Day!
Nothing that should be repealed will be repealed in California.
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