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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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Pete Constant casted the lone vote against the recommendation.
To: CounterCounterCulture
So what’s the problem with paper bags?
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:46:47 PM PDT
by
umgud
(Look to gov't to solve your everday problems and they'll control your everday life.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Charging for bags is a good way to get customers to reuse their old ones.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:47:38 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Plastic bags also cause global warming!
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:47:40 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: martin_fierro
Paper or plastic? Sorry, that question is no longer valid.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:47:51 PM PDT
by
CounterCounterCulture
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Because nothing is safer than a pack of bloody chicken legs siting in a cloth sack. These cloth sacks that are all the rage are stupid and do nothing to save on energy and are an excellent way of spreading disease and can become a breeding ground for deadly mold.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:48:09 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: All
Okay...All in favor of lobbing off Kali at the state lines and letting it float away into the Pacific?
To: umgud
Yeah... most of them biodegrade just fine, or can be recycled together with other recyclable paper products.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:48:25 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
I wonder if anyone ever thought of making these “council” member submit to a drug test.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:48:40 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
To: umgud
You have to cut down tress of course. The fact that fabric either comes from plants or man made chemical processes is lost on the loony left.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:49:24 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: CounterCounterCulture
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:50:07 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: LukeL
I suppose people could launder these sacks between uses, but who bothers? Yes it is an excellent way of spreading foodborne illness.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:50:46 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Love me, love my cat.)
To: CounterCounterCulture
Palo Alto's ban on single-use plastic bags went into effect last week...Seeing as how no plastic bag we get is "single-use" (they are all reused as lunch bags, tote bags, garbage bags, etc.) does that mean we're exempt?
To: LukeL
"These cloth sacks that are all the rage are stupid and do nothing to save on energy and are an excellent way of spreading disease." You got it.
Well, I bought a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs last year, looks like I'll be buying a big supply of plastic bags tomorrow.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:51:48 PM PDT
by
blam
To: All
I can’t believe that I have to move back to this crap.
I’m so going to miss GA.
*Sigh*
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:53:29 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government. -- James Madison)
To: HiTech RedNeck
The problem with that is these sacks are cheaply made and probably would start falling apart after a couple of times in the spin cycle. Also do you want your groceries smelling like Tide and Downy?
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:54:55 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: umgud
So whats the problem with paper bags? Absolutely nothing at all except they were effectively banned about 20 years ago to save the Earth or whatever.
I remember people complained about Styrofoam Big Mac containers until they switched to wax paper or cardboard.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:55:45 PM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
(B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
To: LukeL
Tide and Downy? You have to use environmentally friendly soap and beat them against a rock.
To: GATOR NAVY
I wonder if this included the plastic produce bags as well? What are we suppose to wrap our fruits and vegetables in? I also use those cheap bags to wrap any package of meat I buy so it won't drip blood everywhere.
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:57:11 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: LukeL
Perhaps people are not supposed to eat meat?/sarc of course
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posted on
09/22/2009 10:58:29 PM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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