Texas: Fee to use plastic bags after ban in Brownsville

http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=509356 ^ | 9-9-2010 | Rafael Carranza

[dragnet2]

Starting January 5, the use of plastic bags will be banned.....

lol....

[scott7278]

What a racket...

[Paperdoll]

It may be a good time to sell baskets in Brownsville!

[Vision]

Insanity.

[GeronL]

ugh

[I see my hands]

At the grocery's check out remove each item from its packaging and leave the trash on the belt. Tell them next time you're going to charge them $10.00.

[Libloather]

Any word on regular light bulbs? Maybe just a small fine.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

A local grocery chain got on the “ban the bag” bandwagon about a year ago. A lot of customers refused to use (supposedly “green”) the rip-stop nylon bags. The store started giving the customers the option of using free paper bags. Years ago, paper bags were replaced with plastic bags — because the plastic bags were deemed to be ‘greener’. Now, the store has started giving away packages of a dozen ‘green’ (biodegradable) plastic bags, with every purchase over $50.00. Just in time too, we were running out of doggy bags.

[BradyLS]

Starting January 5, the use of plastic bags will be banned inside the Brownsville city limits in effort to go green.

Just cut the chase: rename the town Greensville!

[FrankR]

""We want to have a beautiful city,” Commissioner Edward Camarillo said."

You keep up this "nanny state" B.S. and you'll end up with a deserted city".

I'd drive 50 miles to the next city to buy groceries before I would give these fools $1 per transaction for the use of plastic bags..

My local grocery here in Georgia stills uses the plastic bags, but they offer for sale those cloth bags. I told them the day they quit furnishing bags - plastic or paper - is the day I shop elsewhere.

The northeast US is a great example of what "nanny-stating" gets you...people moving out in droves.

[EGPWS]

“We want to make sure that we take care of the environment."

Build a friggin' golden idol to the environment with all the money taken in.

[Red_Devil 232]

I like your solution!

[goat granny]

***Just cut the chase: rename the town Greensville!

Better to name it naziville.....I do use the cloth bags as they hold more and are easier to carry. 99 cents at WalMart. With things like meats that might leak, I have them use plastic bags and then put them in the cloth ones...but its a choice...you get a 5 cent discount for every cloth bag you use, but 1 dollar for plastic bags, I go to another town to shop....

It seem like most people that run for office are little Hitler's....

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I found a cloth bag in the store’s parking lot. I use it. Toss it in the wash whenever I do a load. It’s nice to not have to deal with plastic bags anymore. Of course I still use plastic garbage and waste basket bags. It’s not a “green” thing with me. just a bit more convenient.

[Founding Father]

The citizens should designate 1/12/11 as the beginning of 7 days shopping outside city limits. If that doesn’t work on 1/26 do it for two weeks. The tax is gone by February. The sales tax loss would never be made up.

[napscoordinator]

Holy crap....one dollar for every transaction???? Really? That is outragous. They are going to pad their coffers with this rule. I guess I would break down and use those ugly cloth bags for that price. In Europe, it is about 20 euro cents for a plastic bag for the entire bag!!! Not per item. That is much more reasonable.

[LostInBayport]

Don’t they realize that lots of us take these bags and store them to line wastebaskets with (bathroom, office, etc.)? If I didn’t REUSE the bags for that purpose, I’d have to go out and BUY wastebasket liners!

What do liberal enviro-nazis use in their smaller wastebaskets? The plastic bags are useful for zillions of reasons (bringing vegetables to a friend, putting books in them to drop off a a donation center, you name it). I cannot fathom this kind of lunacy.

[mnehring]

..."We want to have a beautiful city,”..

Err. Mr. Mayor, I've been to Brownsville and it is one of the ugliest cities in Texas. Plastic bags won't make a difference.

[Regulator]

They are going to pad their coffers with this rule

That's the idea.

They aren't "environmentalists", they're Communists.

Which is to say they're bullys and thugs, always looking for a cheap extortion gig, since working is beneath them.

[Tellurian]

The Downside:

"Four (reusable) bags were tested, and each used three times over a two-week period. One bag was reserved for meat only, another for produce, a third for cans and a fourth bag was not used.

The latter two bags tested negative for coliform, but researchers found the bag used to carry meat was covered in bacteria.

The produce bag had the most contaminants. In it, researchers found 80 organisms of coliform."

... Looks like there will be lawsuits. All those $1 fines collected will have to be saved for the lawyers & for the doctors who'll be treating kids getting sick from contaminated food.