Posted on 07/14/2012 6:06:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The city of Santa Cruz, usually at the forefront of environmental causes, became the latest, but probably not the last, local government to ban single-use plastic bags, with the 6-0 vote by the City Council Tuesday night. Santa Cruz banned foam products as well.
Santa Cruz's new law on foam products, for instance, will outlaw foam coolers, toys, shipping containers and packing peanuts. The city of Capitola also bans foam ice chests and coolers, and the county bans foam food containers.
The 48 and counting plastic bag and foam bans of some type in California offer a patchwork of regulations, with differing standards.
So, yes, by all means remember to take your cloth bags into the grocery store. It doesn't take long to change habits.
But don't worry if you're confused about what's banned and where, because it is confusing.
The environmental hazards of single use plastic bags and foam products are well documented. The state should step in and set the standards for all of California.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
I just grab extra plastic bags at Walmart and Target in my town. When I shop at retarded cities who have outlawed plastic I simply pull out the ones I stash in my car and fill up.
I also use bags from produce and meat if I don’t have any available.
Yeah, everyone has a way to deal with totalitarianism, except to put an end to it. What a country, America has become!
OK. Terracotta.
We could have clay bags...AKA pottery. The women could carry them on their heads.
Marijuana is an invasive non-native species... must have an environmental impact report before growing it...
Should there be an extensive environmental impact report for the growing of marijuana?
But I’m sure that all of the growers have complied with all Federal, State, EPA, OSHA, USDA, FDA, XYZ and LGBTQ regulations... aren’t you?
/sarc
Using the left wing’s own environmental nonsense against them would bring the whole thing crashing down...
Calling them “single use” is erroneous and propaganda. I use them until they rip at the bottom. My espouse hates it when I get on the plane with just a plastic bag full of stuff. I tell her, I’ll bring back a new one.
Can’t remember where I read that the canvass bags build up bacteria in the bottom, so they have to be washed regularly in hot water. Somebody run the green numbers on that.
The canvas bags can hold microorganisms all over.
I recently read a report of a food poisoning incident that occurred when someone left one of those canvas bags full of snacks in a bathroom. A little girl was sick with vomiting and diarrhea, and aerosolized norovirus got all over the bag. Later, when other children ate snacks from the bag, they got sick. I don't know how close to the toilet the bag was, but if it had been a plastic bag tied shut, the viruses would have remained on the outside and the other children might not have become ill.
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