Posted on 09/30/2014 9:50:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags.
Plastic bags will be phased out of large grocery stores starting next year and convenience stores and pharmacies in 2016. The legislation is meant to encourage consumers to bring their own bags and as a way to reduce litter.
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I know no one, including myself, who didn’t keep those bags and use them again, for lining wastebaskets, for dog walks, cleaning cat boxes. Anything.
Now we have to buy rolls of small plastic bags to do the same thing.
Actually, the reusable shopping bags for grocery shopping are significantly better. They hold a nicer shape, allowing more protection of the contents, and you can pack them to your own strength, good for the strong and the not so strong. If they re-allowed the plastic, I’d still use reusables because with four kids we have a lot of groceries and they are truly better. Some go in the wash nicely and some others can be sprayed clean inside. Also, if you double bag your meats, you’re not getting E. coli from them.
Now we’ll use more
Energy and water washing canvas bags regularly in hot water
The production of paper consumes much more resources, and produces much more waste than plastic, even if the recycling is taken into account.
I thought that california decided to join mexico? What does this environut nonsense have to do with us gringos here in the US?
We vacationed at the Outer banks of North Carolina a few years ago, and they have a ban on plastic bags there(apparently). At the only two big grocery stores in our area, they only had paper bags, and it sucked. We were on vacation though, so we didn’t really care, but if we had to put up with that on a daily basis, it would be a terrible inconvenience.
Morgan Hill passed its own ban on one-time use plastic bags a few months ago. Within weeks, I saw that one store was still using plastic bags — Now, though, the bags were colored green and labeled “Reusable”. Gee, I guess that makes them legal, doesn’t it? :=)
Couldn’t we reduce much more litter by placing a WalMart plastic bag gently down over Moonbeam’s bald head???
I guess hospitals have to go back to glass IV bottles.
Glue Sniffers will be very upset , LOL
Well, he would certainly need a litter if we did, literally.
Weren't they the first to ban brown PAPER bags...in the 70's...due to the tree huggers??!
I don’t just randomly put stuff in there; it’s still bagged and protected from getting germs. Even if there are germs, just wipe it out once a month with a disinfectant wipe.
That is an issue though if you don’t use them safely.
My kook neighbors and ex-phb-ette control freak would be fighting to be the first in line for that position. They would do it probably for free.
My wife has a ton of those bacteria bags. I hate them.
Illegal aliens: OK
Plastic Bags: Not OK
EeeeeeeYeeeeeeew!!! That was 2/3rds of a PUN… PU!!! (snort!)
“You should have your things already in boxes anyway aside from fruit” And what about veggies?
The only boxes in my grocery cart do not contain food for human consumption-many of us prefer nice, fresh foods to canned, frozen and boxed processed stuff-and that goes better in plastic bags than cloth ones that get leaked into-germy and unsanitary, and fall apart in the washer with the bleach and hot water needed to sanitize them. I take the cloth bags to the dollar store to put toiletries and other non-food items in, so they do get used here, just never, ever for food...
Paper bags leak and disintegrate, especially when you transport them the 20+ miles from the nearest grocery store, leaving a mess of icky wet paper in the truck or SUV.
Unless they were used to transport packages of meat, plastic bags are recycled to clean the cat litter box, line most of the trash cans, empty the vacuum, consolidate small tools, etc-nothing wasted.
I should have known. :)
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