Posted on 08/29/2014 6:08:33 AM PDT by artichokegrower
California appears headed to becoming the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic grocery bags after the controversial legislation won approval from the state Assembly, just days after lawmakers rejected the measure.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
In Los Angeles County, where a bag ban has been in place since 2011, data show that 47 percent of consumers at large grocery stores get free bags.
So if you flash your EBT card at the grocery store not only do we taxpayers have to pay for your groceries but we also have to buy you a bag. So poor people are exempt from environmental regulation? Also this article states that half of the customers in California grocery stores are using food stamps.
Cut down more trees for paper bags!
and you know the EBT types will always bring back their reusable bags to save the tax payers money right?
uhh huh... I bet 1 in 100 actually gets reused at the store.
I wonder what the hell Walmart’s gonna do....as it is now, if you buy six items, you get 7 or 8 plastic baggies...
In the 70’s didn’t California ban paper bags because we were killing the rainforest or some such nonsense?
Kill a tree or choke a fish. At this point ,”What difference does it make?”
LOL! Walmart sure loves passing em out like candy. I hope businesses just say NO NO NO! They couldn’t possibly enforce every business in Cali.
Worse yet, what are all the dogwalkers gonna use to collect their pups’ stools?? They’ll now probably just leave the droppings for my sneakers to latch onto...
Was it not these stupid damn liberal enviro-nuts that facilitated the whole plastic bag craze in the first place?
I remember a couple of decades ago environmentalist screaming about wackin down all the trees.
Now that the ducks and dolphin are choking on these plastic bags, they want to eliminate them.
Man...I really despise liberals.
I think you’re right.
What a great idea! People will reuse bags and pack groceries in bags covered with rotten meat juices...what could go wrong?
Washing your fresh vegetables in the toilet bowl would give a similar effect. It’s natural and organic, yum yum!
Seems like the plastic bag recycle cans at the stores were always jammed full. So why not just put more cans out for plastic recycle or give money back like cans? What about garbage can bags, leaf bags, zip locks, etc.? It was the garbage disposal sites complaining about plastic.
***LOL! Walmart sure loves passing em out like candy.***
Have you noticed that the blue bags from Walmart for 50 cents are not cloth but a form of plastic or paper fibers. Look at how the handles are attached to the bag. They are not sewn but somehow heat pressed. I’ve had those bags fail by the handles breaking off after just one or two uses.
Same for other store bags. If I have to buy bags, look for handles sewn on the bag.
I reuse my grocery bags (TJs and Sprouts). There are no rotting meat juices soiling the bags.
I shop at Sams Club all the time. No bags of any kind are provided. People shopped for groceries long before paper or plastic were provided. The personal basket may make a comeback.
Having said all this, I object to liberal heavy-handedness that treats me like a small child. Mandatory seatbelt laws. Gun bans. Now shopping bags. It’s insulting.
Liberals look around and see problems no one else does. Then they propose solutions that cause more problems than they fix. And of course, they have another “solution” that will cause even MORE problems.
Liberals have solution to everything and it always involves the iron fist of the government to enforce it. And then they claim to want freedom.
On the positive side, they’ll be hiring lumberjacks in the Pacific Northwest.
Hope you wash them before reusing.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/health/sns-green-bacteria-in-shopping-bags-story.html
Reusable bags, if not properly washed between uses, create the potential for cross-contamination of foods.
This potential exists when raw meat products and foods traditionally eaten uncooked (fruits and vegetables) are carried in the same bags, either together or between uses. This risk can be increased by the growth of bacteria in the bags.”
Little know fact. Ebola got started this way when Africa banned plastic bags...... : )
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