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California lawmakers pass first US plastic bag ban
Associated Press ^ | Aug 30, 2014 4:27 AM EDT

Posted on 08/30/2014 1:29:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai

California lawmakers have approved a measure that would make the state the first to impose a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.

SB270 cleared the Senate on a 22-15 vote Friday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown. It was approved by the Assembly a day earlier. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: California
KEYWORDS: alexpadilla; california; governormoonbeam; nannystate; plasticbags
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To: Ben Ficklin

I remember going to the county landfill (trash dump)several years ago after a particularly windy storm system passed through. The leeward side was a surreal landscape of trees, bushes and brush all with plastic bags trapped in their branches. I wondered at the time how long it would remain like that. I’m not sure exactly when the landscape became free of the bags but eventually it did.


21 posted on 08/30/2014 3:55:37 AM PDT by ZChief
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To: DH
Barbwire fence in blossom


22 posted on 08/30/2014 4:13:00 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Olog-hai
Those illegal plastic bags! While California Democrats Pass Bill Allowing Illegal Aliens to Practice Medicine
23 posted on 08/30/2014 4:20:06 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Olog-hai

LOL…Clueless CA, up to its eyeballs in illegals and Marxists, and rapidly descending to third-world status, passes icky little laws such as a ban on plastic bags, while the Left is decimating the economy of the state. CA will achieve Detroit status in our lifetime.


24 posted on 08/30/2014 4:39:19 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: DH

Weesach, or Huisache bush


25 posted on 08/30/2014 5:02:50 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: daniel1212

However, plastic bags made in Mexico are welcome in California.


26 posted on 08/30/2014 5:23:45 AM PDT by ken5050 ("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
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To: Olog-hai

My wife washes them out and reuses....not because she’s enviromentally conscious but because she’s a tight a$$.


27 posted on 08/30/2014 5:24:19 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Quickgun

Huisache?

No, those are not Huisache either. Huisache have very tiny leaves and those shown have very long leaves. That type of tree also has a green trunk and limbs.

The name of the tree (excuse the spelling) sounds like “waheia.”


28 posted on 08/30/2014 5:27:14 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Olog-hai

They’ve got it all backwards. It should be a Democrat politician bagman ban.


29 posted on 08/30/2014 5:28:04 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Olog-hai

It takes 84 times more energy to recycle a paper bag than a plastic one. Idiots.


30 posted on 08/30/2014 5:30:11 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Olog-hai

When discussing politics with a liberal, speak slowly and use crayons.


31 posted on 08/30/2014 5:31:13 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The next DNC convention will be spoken in Spanish; Press 1 for English)
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To: Olog-hai

We’ve solved our massive budget deficit out here, y’see, and have decided that illegal immigration is not an issue, so nonsense like this is only problem we have left to tackle.


32 posted on 08/30/2014 6:17:18 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: FreedomStar3028

There’s been such a ban in Los Angeles County too. This is the first STATE to do so. The idiots in Sacramento want to make sure it’s a pain in the ass for all of us from Crescent City to Calexico.


33 posted on 08/30/2014 6:24:48 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Olog-hai

And I heard that paper grocery bags are going to cost 10 cents each. Sooooooo...which politician’s cousin is invested in manufacturing paper bags?


34 posted on 08/30/2014 6:26:10 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Olog-hai
From the bill d) Notwithstanding any other law, on and after July 1, 2015, a store, as defined in paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (g) of Section 42280, that makes reusable grocery bags or recycled paper bags available for purchase at the point of sale shall provide a reusable grocery bag or a recycled paper bag at no cost at the point of sale to a customer using a payment card or voucher issued by the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 123275) of Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 106 of the Health and Safety Code or an electronic benefit transfer card issued pursuant to Section 10072 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
Meaning that if you pay for your groceries using food stamps the rest of us taxpayers get to pay not only for your groceries but also for your bag.
35 posted on 08/30/2014 6:28:53 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: Olog-hai

They’re banning the 30 gal black plastic bags?!!! THOSE are single use bags!

The little white grocery bags get multiple uses in my household. I store stuff in them also. After one year indoors, those bags have to be replaced because they fall apart.

The problem with the grocery bags is their color. If they were black, they wouldn’t be so visible and the libs wouldn’t see them.


36 posted on 08/30/2014 7:01:05 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: knarf

The illegals use plastic bags for virtually all transportation purposes.


37 posted on 08/30/2014 7:03:37 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: traderrob6

Can’t wash them here in commiefornica because we have no water either!


38 posted on 08/30/2014 7:17:12 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: Olog-hai

It isn’t JUST the plastic ban but the other rules, pages and pages of rules, about other bags. It is written by retarded adults.


39 posted on 08/30/2014 7:20:46 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: US_MilitaryRules

Can’t do this, can’t do that....

Kalifornia Kontrol-freaks.


40 posted on 08/30/2014 7:22:35 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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