Posted on 04/24/2015 9:12:59 AM PDT by fifedom
After six minutes of discussion, the Huntington Beach City Council voted 6 to 1 on Monday night to allow stores to use plastic carryout bags, taking a step toward reversing a ban that was enacted in 2013.
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They did this in San Jose too.
Lucky stores had a store across the street from a Safeway that was in another town(across the street was Campbell I think).
Safeway could provide bags and Luckys could not.
Business at that store dropped so much it was no longer profitable.
Thanks Nanny government!
If the statewide ban is overturned it may not have an effect on any local bans, as I understand the initiative.
**So, locals will still have the ban even if ballot is approved?
I lived in Paris in the late 60’s. There was NO refrigerator in the apartment. There was there beautiful cement box outside the kitchen window. That’s where perishables were stored... for two or three days max.
Shopping daily was a necessity. There were also guys selling fruits and veggies in their horse drawn carts.
No chance that could happen in the USA nowadays. The feminists would have to stay home.
If the local law came into effect first, yes. My understanding.
Oh, our leftist self-appointed elites always seem to manage to find a way to foist their social engineering on us, while escaping the consequences themselves. Just look at the politicians and the faithful spokesmen of the Church Of The Global Warming jetting around on “Earth Day”.
Sorry if I’m pointing out the obvious, but doesn’t it take more energy and use more natural resources to wash out disposable plastic bags? I also reuse grocery bags for various purposes around the house, such as lining garbage baskets. Whenever I take my own bags to Whole Foods, they often “conveniently” forget to give me my 5 cents credit for each bag that I brought in. Then if you point it out to them, they “conveniently” ask you if you want to donate the money to one of their chosen charities.
They will be satisfied when your ration card limits you to a handful of turnips and 3 ounces of powdered milk.
We can only continue to pray that this is so.
Exactly! & CA in man made drought, can we really afford extra water to wash the bags?
Well Put!
whenever I get too dar away from the hills..mountains..and ocean. I get hinky or Id have been out of here years ago!
Those first few days after the attacks on our Soil On.... September 11 2001...I thought there might be hope for this state...
I save the bags. When we go to the coast, I take two or three with us. Drive the liberals nuts.
Thats the spirit!!
Except those “reusable” bags are now made so thinly that they are full of holes by the time you get them home so they aren’t reusable anymore. I have to go through about 30 before finding one that will hold kitty litter and have given up on using them as waste basket liners.
“In response to a local bag ban in Morgan Hill, CA, one local store had their plastic bags printed with the word “Reusable” prominently displayed on them. Since the ordinance only prohibited “single-use” bags, it didn’t affect their use of them. :=)”
I’ve had the same idea and today, the Phila city council wants to have stores charge shoppers 5 cents per “single use” bag, with the city getting 2 out of the 5. My claim would be that both plastic & paper are used in my household: mainly as liners for trash receptables & recycle bins.
As one American old enough to remember the weekly public health hazard that was Trash Day before the advent of plastic bags, I second the motion.
Wonder what happened there? The ban must’ve been seriously hurting somebody’s bottom line...
Wonder what happened there? The ban must’ve been seriously hurting somebody’s bottom line...
Living in a city with one of these bans is a royal PITA. As I mentioned, I ended up buying some bags from Amazon because they are so useful. Other people not as cheap as me buy the thicker trash bags from the grocery, which generate even more profits for the industry.
The bans are supported by the grocery stores since they do not have to provide the bags.
Since those plastic bags are not biodegradable,
LOL, I know that they are biodegradable. They should come with an expiration date. Bags stored indoors from two years ago have become very brittle.
In fact I find this war on “single use” grocery bags racist. They’re picking on the wrong bag.
The black garbage bags are single use and they last forever. I have leaves bagged in them from five years ago. They’re composting nicely. The bags are still strong.
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