Posted on 12/19/2011 8:43:54 AM PST by 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?
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
Personally. I’d love to have a Camaro. I mean, what a beautiful muscle car that is. I also love th enew Mustang as well, but I do prefer the Camaro to it.
Sadly, nothing named Eco-Boost can be purchased by me. I just can’t. I’m done with green, eco, environment any of that crapola, I just ain’t gonna play that game any more. But this pretty much goes for any product of that nature, not just vehicles.
They do - I’ve tried to pick up bags that have been trapped under leaves and stuff for some time and they shred. PS. the dollar a bag bags I’m required to use for bio yard waste come apart if you put a little too much in them.
I don’t think you’re even allowed to call them “pets” in Seattle. They’re “companions”, and you have to apply to have one, and IF not WHEN they decide you are worthy, you just KNOW you have to clean up your animal’s mess or you are liable to LOOSE CUSTODY!!!~!!!
I actually know a fella here where I live, far from Seattle, but he has a paper bag company - one of only about 3 in the country. Things have been bleak for them for a loong time, but I bet he’s dancing a little jig today!
Does anyone else remember when the grocery stores used paper bags.. but to “save the trees” they went to plastic ??
First they came for the paper bags....
Then they came for my plastic bags...
You quota of throwing old people out into the streets is down...get back to work.
Well, there you go! There's a second use for those paper bags, just stack them in the outhouse...(Yep, we're on our way back to that, the way things are going...)
“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.”
I ship packages from home here several times a week...I use crumpled plastic bags as filler in the packages...far better than those awful foam chips. We don’t get a newspaper, so crumpled newspaper is not an option.
And boy, can’t wait ‘til I have to send a package to Seattle...might even have to use a box bigger than I would normally use! :)
“Whatever reduces our oil imports from the Middle-East is just fine with me...”
For starters, get rid of the Bummer and his green-weenies; build the Keystone pipeline NOW; build new refineries; and drill baby, drill! Oil reserves in this country exceed that in Saudi Arabia. And the known reserves are growing at a rapid rate. And our oil costs less...we don’t need tankers to trasport it.
Understand though, I am big on fuel efficiency, and on keeping the air clean. We can do both. And I also say, frack the gweenies!
I have studied your post for about a minute. I’ll be darned if I can find anything to disagree with.
I’ll work on it. ;^)
Thank you...and have a very Happy Christmas! Blessings!
Thank you. Hey I spent more time on it, and I couldn’t find anything to disagree with. Drat! ;^)
Hey, here’s hoping you and your family have a blessed Christmas season.
D1
And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours, D1...and here’s to you going into the New Year! GPa
I’m not too old to remember that using paper bags would destroy the rainforest and cause the planet to die because of too little co2.
Then we were told we needed to use plastic because paper would fill-up the landfills.
Then we were told not to use spray because that would destroy the ozone layer.
Now they’re trying to outlaw plastic bags and the use of plastic water bottles in addition to the consumption of soda. It’s all for our own good.
These were the same people saying we were experiencing an ice age and the population was growing so fast we would run out of resources and we will all die by 1985.
I remember when the stores first came out with the flimsy plastic bags. Shoppers liked the brown paper bags better because they were sturdier and didn’t flop about in the trunk of the car. They didn’t tear as easily, either. Everyone grumbled about the plastic bags. No one wanted to use them.
NOW they’re switching back to paper and CHARGING FOR THEM? They were free, before.
And now people will complain about the paper bags. They’ll say they’re too stiff, they take up too much room, they’re bulky, etc.
People are never happy.
I just want them to be FREE.
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