[mom of young patriots]

I am so glad someone is going over the heads of the totalitarian city regime in Austin. Their boot on my neck has gotten heavier and heavier over the years.

Phone calls and letters to Congresspeople in Texas in support of this proposed Shopping Bag Freedom Act are needed at the moment and would be much appreciated.

[South40]

I am all for banning bags as long as it's the right one.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Some people just enjoy banning things. Maybe they could get behind this ban ban too.

[max americana]

They just switched overnight at our Target in SoCal and tracing back the origins of the lefty movement, it came mostly from one idiot liberal actress, forgot her name but she played Elaine in Seinfeld. If I had a paper bag and she was across me, I would shove it down her throat.

[hulagirl]

I hate hippies, fascist dictators every one. Plastic bags are recyclable nowadays anyways. They want us to go back in time, not forward (as they peck on their iphones and computers). HATE THEM!

[Brad from Tennessee]

Biodegradable bags:

http://www.buygreen.com/biobagshoppers.aspx

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I remember the big stink that was made to create the shift to the “plastic” ones – the lefties were going "Eek! Eek! Save the trees! Eek! Eek!!" so the plastic bags were formulated in such a way that going to them was acceptable to all parties and have been in use for a number of decades without a peep of protest - now suddenly those are evil too and must be gone or regulated with taxes or fees. Am smelling a money trail somewhere - there always is one when it comes to nonsensical tyranny. The way to shoot these crooked bans down is to make them have to present specific proof to justify their actions - ultimately they're wide open for liability on this.

[OrangeHoof]

I moved to Round Rock just in time.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

I love plastic bags, and always say ‘plastic’ when asked my choice at checkout. And I recycle them...I mail a lot of packages...sometimes daily...and I use the plastic bags as ‘filler’ in the box...works great, is light weight, and gives the recipient something for their own use...LOL.

And any that might be left over, if we were to (God forbid) have too many, they get burned with our other burnable trash. We burn what we can burn (and no, CO2 does not cause global warming), and we recycle all our steel cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, glass bottles. Food waste goes to the cats or our horses. Coffee grounds, egg shells and other food waste that is not fit for man nor beast goes for compost. We pay for trash service, but they make out big time, ‘cause we rarely have much in our trash barrel.

And btw, I hate polystyrene ‘peanuts’ used in packaging.

[asinclair]

I just wish the MSM would do some actual reporting on the subject. The down side of using the canvas reusable bags is that if the consumer doesn't wash then regularly, the bags will transfer disease from prior trips to the new food you buy. The single-use plastic bag, properly recycled, breaks that disease vector. Ditto paper bags that are used once and then recycled properly.

I would be interested in research showing whether string bags (mentioned by someone in this thread) are a disease vector, and if so how serious. One the flip side of the question, the string bags I've had were easy to wash off and dry, you just run them under the tap, squeeze out the water in one swipe of your hand, and hang it up to dry.

[mylife]

Walmart bags are the new Texas flag, they are everywhere in the trees.

They also get wrapped into hay bales and muck up cattle feeding on the hay bales.
That said, just enforce litter and nuisance laws.

Why ban plastic bags?
Millions of Grannys depend on them!!

[dalereed]

Before they ban them here I will buy a few cases since we use them for lining trash bags and cat litter.

I have a lifetime supply of reusable bags for groceries from hagerty Insurance, they give them away free at car shows.

[XenaLee]

Whatever would we do without the ban-crazy liberal idiots?

I don't know....but I sure as hell would love to find out!

[autumnraine]

Cloth bags carry disgusting germs. YEAH I would love for my apples to get e coli from a leaky meat pack.

[duckman]

We have had a ban on plastic for a few years, here at the Outer Banks NC. Especially in Dare and Hyde county. There were plastic bags littered on the beach and getting caught on the sea grass. Probably discarded by some surf fisherman that used them to carry bait. Bags stuck on seagulls in flight and inside blue fish.

[q_an_a]

Someone should think about the “data” of bags. In Dallas Ft Worth we have 6,000,000 people, if 10% go shopping for grocieries and take 3 bags that is 1.8 million plastic bags EVERY DAY... cut the number in half - 1 MILLION. Now add all the bags at Lowes, Home Depot and other retail stores - like Target, WalMart or Subway. I bet that in DFW we move 2 MILLION bags a day. How many do we see in trees or on river banks - as a percentage of that daily number? In 30 days 60 million bags? How many are discarded, but how many are reused for dog poop, kitty litter or garbage in the house?

[Arrowhead1952]

If you are in Austin, listen to KLBJ. They are talking about this today and a caller just quoted a TX law that makes the ban unconstitutional.

[Ditter]

I have said for years when asked “paper or plastic?” that I didn’t care. Recently I have learned that my response meant that I was “bi-sack-ual”!

Who knew? :)snort)))))

[Amendment10]

Hasn’t it been settled that plastic bags are better to use because you can recycle plastic bags, evidenced by recycle bins at the entrance to some of the stores, as opposed to using porus fabric bags which introduce well-ducumented problems concerning the spread of bacteria? After all, cleaning fabrics takes energy, a carbon footprint problem according to liberals, and pollutes the environment with detergent.