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Boston City Council passes citywide plastic bag ban
Boston Business Journal ^ | November 29, 2017 | By David L. Harris

Posted on 11/30/2017 8:11:07 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

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To: PTBAA

Well good idea- i guess- but what was a great idea was getting plastic bags at grocery stores to begin with


21 posted on 12/01/2017 12:29:02 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ConservativeStatement

They need to ban plastic trash bags too - and them plastic lids on the dumpsters....they might never degrade....hell, why not ban all plastics - that would be fun to watch...


22 posted on 12/01/2017 3:25:07 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ConservativeStatement

How trendy and cool NOT


23 posted on 12/01/2017 4:31:26 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

WELL ISN’T THAT SPECIAL


24 posted on 12/01/2017 4:32:43 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Reusable grocery bags can spread foodborne disease
25 posted on 12/01/2017 4:33:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mewzilla
Enough with the poor-bashing, disease-friendly ‘bag tax’
26 posted on 12/01/2017 4:37:08 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t like plastic grocery bags. My groceries end up spilled all over the back seat or trunk. Sometimes they split, spilling my stuff on the ground. And they blow all over the city & into my yard. They are in the lakes, streams, & oceans; a hazard to wildlife.

I grew up with paper bags. They stood up in the car & on the kitchen counter. As a kid, there were a thousand uses for a paper bag. Yeah, they had a problem if they got wet. Still, they were far superior to plastic bags. And they come from a renewable resource & they are environmentally friendly, almost melting in the rain.

Some company needs to bring back the paper bags & coat the bottom 1/4 with wax to resist moisture just as a paper cup does.


27 posted on 12/01/2017 5:06:50 AM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

thanx. it feels the same. It’s really a nusiance and the way it happened offends my need for truth


28 posted on 12/01/2017 7:00:59 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

Actually, the law was put forth in 2 parts. Part 1 banned the bags. Part 2 gave the money to the state for certain reasons (can’t remember them). Anyway, Part 1 passed but Part 2 didn’t so the stores themselves get to keep all the money from the bags they sell.
Most people don’t know that.


29 posted on 12/01/2017 7:06:33 AM PST by sheana
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To: Mister Da

As long as all the paper bags have handles I am in agreement.


30 posted on 12/01/2017 7:18:59 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: sheana

nice of the state to give the stop money since they provide the bags. LOL


31 posted on 12/01/2017 7:26:46 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: morphing libertarian

store


32 posted on 12/01/2017 7:27:12 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
aving lived with the bag ban for two years, I see no problem. It is actually better, much better.

I shop mostly at warehouse clubs, where customers can take the corrugated cardboard cartons products were shipped in, to transport their purchases to the car and home. I reuse the cartons to put out my recycling by the curb.

33 posted on 12/01/2017 7:32:52 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Mister Da
As a kid, there were a thousand uses for a paper bag.

Such as covering one's schoolbooks. Then, you could doodle on them in class.


34 posted on 12/01/2017 7:36:34 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: morphing libertarian

I don’t know if that’s true or not. I was just stating what happened.


35 posted on 12/01/2017 7:39:46 AM PST by sheana
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I live in a clean state and we have no plastic bag in trees problems.

Perhaps there is a better way than banning bags.

Teach the pigs to put their trash in trash containers.


36 posted on 12/01/2017 7:43:20 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Mister Da

In our state one must have the option of paper or plastic bags. I always take paper, collect them year round. Two paper bags starts the woodstove. every time.


37 posted on 12/01/2017 7:45:02 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: FlyFisher
Why are you for banning useful items?

Because they were a big public nuisance...and the alternative turned out to be much easier and better. It is actually easier, more convenient to deal with groceries now. I would not go back to the old way of doing it with the cheap, wimpy free bags.

38 posted on 12/01/2017 7:54:34 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Chickensoup
Teach the pigs to put their trash in trash containers.

Good luck with that.

39 posted on 12/02/2017 8:00:06 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Bob434

You are right, of course. I hope you will forgive my bad attempt at humor to make that point.


40 posted on 12/08/2017 11:29:04 PM PST by PTBAA
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