Farewell, plastic bags? You’ll have a lot of company

Seattle PI ^ | 12/18/11 | Vanessa Ho

[freespirited]

With the Seattle City Council expected to vote on a plastic bag ban Monday, is it time to bid farewell to something Seattleites use 292 million of a year?

The bill would banish single-use, carryout bags in not just grocery stores, but department stores, clothing stores, liquor stores, drug stores and home improvement stores.

Customers would be able to buy paper bags from retailers for 5 cents each. Customers on food assistance would be exempted from that charge.

With seven of nine council members sponsoring the bill – and support from environmental and grocery-store groups – the future doesn’t look too bright for plastic.

But bags would have a lot of company in a big graveyard of things once common in Seattle, and now legislated out of existence. Were these the good old days? Or a sign of how far we’ve come?

[freespirited]

But bags would have a lot of company in a big graveyard of things once common in Seattle, and now legislated out of existence. Were these the good old days? Or a sign of how far we’ve come?

A sign of how far gone you are.

[nuconvert]

Seems like every week a story comes out of Seattle to discourage me from ever thinking of moving there.

[ChocChipCookie]

I’ve been shopping at Trader Joe’s a lot and they use only paper bags. I have a huge stack of paper bags because there aren’t that many ways to re-use them. Not so for plastic. We use those for all kinds of things around the house, backyard, and I always keep a few in the car for trash. The paper bags are too bulky.

[DuncanWaring]

Anyone else see a market in people on “food assistance” getting bags for free, and selling them for 3 cents?

[DoughtyOne]

IMO, this is just more of “Death of the West” type stuff.

We are destroying ourselves from within.

What gets me, is how many have bought into this utter nonsense. You can’t listen to the television for an hour without hearing the terms “earth friendly”, “environmentally friendly”, “green”,...

There’s a sickness in the land, and it has it’s roots in the church of hyper ecological paranoia.

[oh8eleven]

Customers would be able to buy paper bags from retailers for 5 cents each.
Five cents a bag - such a deal! But what about the TREES???

Customers on food assistance would be exempted from that charge.
Oh, for sure, that goes w/o saying. They don't pay for a damned thing anyway.

[chris37]

I “love” the F-150 with “Eco-Boost”.

I swear to God, if some salesman tried to sell me a pick up truck with “Eco-Boost”, I’d laugh and mock him out of the lot...

[Proud2BeRight]

About 3/4 of the plastic bags we get, go back to the stores in their bag recycle bin at the front door. The other 1/4 become garbage bags lining every trash can in the house, bags to haul all kinds of stuff around, dog crap pickup bags, covers to protect the work bench and furniture when doing projects, and many other uses.

Looks like it may be time to start hoarding them for the time the enviro-Nazis enter our stores.

[gimme1ibertee]

Five cents a bag - such a deal! But what about the TREES???

Ezzzackly what I was thinking....
guess they need an Occupy protest to show them the error of their ways ("You're killing the trees for corporate greed!!!") and they'll shut up about the plastic bags....LOL

[dblshot]

Customers on food assistance would be exempted from that charge
Ironic, since if you look at any impoverished area compared to an affluent area the former will be much trashier.

[Moose4]

The sad thing is, the 3.5L Ecoboost is a hell of an engine. 365 horsepower out of a 3.5L V6? The gas mileage of a V6 with the power and torque of a V8? I’d be all over it if I could afford a new F150 (or Flex). It’s just saddled with a stupid name.

}:-)4

[napscoordinator]

I actually like the paperbags with handles better. They are stronger and easier to carry. I am not against getting rid of plastic bags but I don’t like those cloth bags at all.

[Don Corleone]

“Save a Tree....or... Choke a Fish! Environmental WACKOS!

[DoughtyOne]

WTH is Eco-boost? LOL

[dblshot]

Next thing they'll be a coming fer our Red Solo Cups, bunch a commies in Seattle fer sure.

[chris37]

Stupid name kills it, I mean, I don’t care if it teleports.

Eco-Boost is just utterly obnoxious.

[oh8eleven]

guess they need an Occupy protest
The absolute idiocy of the Left knows no bounds.
The OWS scum are just the latest on a long list of losers who should be swept up and dumped onto the ash heap of history.

[yoe]

There’s a sickness in the land, and it has it’s roots in the church of hyper ecological paranoia. - Yes that is true, however don't forget the Follow the Money......that is the real 'green'......

[chris37]

It is democrat tom foolery!

You can buy your giant pick up and still know you’re helping the environment ><;

And they even have a dude with a deep announcer voice describing Eco-Boost in the commercial, so that we men can rest assured that Eco-Boost is, in fact, manly.

[oh8eleven]

I don’t like those cloth bags at all.
Bacteria breeders unless washed like clothes.