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San Jose council votes to ban most plastic and paper bags beginning in 2011
San Jose Mercury News ^
| 22 September 2009
| Tracy Seipel
Posted on 09/22/2009 10:45:11 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
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To: LukeL
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:59:05 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Wonder what McDonald's will use if this ban goes in effect? What else is there that is not cost prohibited? Boxes?
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:59:42 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: LukeL
I particularly enjoy carrying paper bags in the rain /s
Also, living in SF, where I don’t get plastic bags anymore, it should come as no surprise that I now buy plastic bags, with the net result that:
- I have more (wasted) paper bags than I need
- Fewer plastic bags get reused, which means more get made since I buy them and
- I am out more money.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:01:23 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
is there a state law in CA requiring paper toilet seat covers be available in all public toilets? just curious as they were on my last visit. the ti/daughter is here from San Jose and she is complaining that we don’t have them in NY.
you guys certainly have your nanny staters in full force out there.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:03:12 PM PDT
by
tioga
(Drip, Drip, Drip.......the ACORNS are falling.)
To: FoxInSocks
Nobody regulated away paper bags to my knowledge. Plastic bags were simply much cheaper and easier.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:03:43 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: Marie2
I could not imagine living in San Francisco, it amazes me how plastic bags are top on their to do list, while there are certain fault zones which are decades or even centuries overdo for the next 7.0+ quake, not to mention terrorism and the terrible state of California’s economy.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:04:50 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: CounterCounterCulture
I use my cloth bag and recycled plastic bags as much but sometimes I still need paper bags which I use again for trash.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:05:17 PM PDT
by
FTJM
To: rawhide
McDonald’s paper is very biodegradable, almost too much so. If you order parfaits or something else very cold that sweats, be careful because the bottom can easily fall out of the damp sack.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:06:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
The city should ban throw-away condoms.
To: CounterCounterCulture
But if your buy a CD or even a tiny flash memory card it comes packaged in a pound of plastic.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:06:45 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Are you one of those "individual responsibility" people?)
To: Tax Government
To: CounterCounterCulture
Looks like a lot of people will be buying their groceries in another area.
Power hungry despots abound at home and abroad.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:07:45 PM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(You can never have too much cowbell !!)
To: Tax Government
The proper term is “single-use” condoms. ;-)
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:28:59 PM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
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To: GeronL
Yesterday I had to open up those insanely packaged HP printer multi-cartridge packages. Scissors are mandatory to cut through all that plastic. Medication is far easier to open.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:32:05 PM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
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To: tioga
is there a state law in CA requiring paper toilet seat covers be available in all public toilets?
Ugh, I don't know, but I never cared for those toilet seat covers and all they end up doing is clogging public restroom toilets.
you guys certainly have your nanny staters in full force out there.
Indeed.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:35:05 PM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
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To: LukeL
It is quite surreal here. Yet there are some very good people here, too.
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posted on
09/22/2009 11:42:24 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Most of the packaging seems to be an anti-theft device. You have seen how tiny those flash cards are?
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posted on
09/23/2009 12:14:15 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Are you one of those "individual responsibility" people?)
To: LukeL
You are spot on! Another problem is where you place the cloth sacks. They will sooner or later sit on something very contaminated. That contamination will be transferred to your refrigerator and your pantry shelves. Soon it will be on your hands and in your dinner plate. This is a situation where you hope that trip through the wash machine and dryer has the ability to disinfect that cloth sack of sickness.
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posted on
09/23/2009 12:27:30 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Great, freaking enviromentalists are putting more people out of jobs.
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posted on
09/23/2009 12:38:06 AM PDT
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
The plastic bags are already being recycled. What’s the problem with plastic shopping bags? What about the plastic garbage bags? What about the plastic packaging for such things as refrigerators, computers, and sacks of dog food? Are they going to ban sandwich bags we uses for our lunch?
This is a method to attack the distribution system of food. Next they will attack other parts of the system. Screw them!
What about the miles of shrink wrapping and plastic banding of the millions of pallets of products being transported by trucks to the loading docks of our stores? The distribution system will be attacked by these anti-capitalists as sure as my peanut butter sandwich.
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posted on
09/23/2009 12:48:16 AM PDT
by
jonrick46
(The Obama Administration is a blueprint for Fabian Socialism.)
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