New York moves to ban plastic bags

pix11.com ^ | April 23, 2018 | Aliza Chasan

[GailA]

They like most water bottles are made of Re-RECYCLED plastic in the first place, which is why they have to double bag heavy stuff like a half gallon of milk.

I can make my own, have, have heavy duty plastic reinforced ones I bought for a $1 CAN’T make them that cheap, and a thermo 1 for summer months I put those re-freeze things in. Much better than that crap from the store. I don’t need milk or laundry soap bagged. Most can be thrown in the washer to eliminate contaminations, and let drip dry.

What few store bags I get, get used in bathroom trash cans or as scrap bags when I cook to take out to the big garbage can so the house doesn’t smell of rotted food.

[GailA]

He’d do better enviro wise to ban disposable diapers. They take 500 yrs to decompose. Now you are adding in Adult diapers.

[1Old Pro]

Next we will hear that they will make exceptions for “poor people”, who cannot be expected to buy/bring their own bags, etc.

No, there are no exceptions, however we will be taxed to buy them for poor folks.

[sheana]

That’s what they did in Cali. I can always tell the EBT people because they don’t bother to bring their own bags. The stores have to give them bags. Everyone else carries their own or has to pay 10-15 cents for them.

[1Old Pro]

This is going to cost businesses, because people will reduce their shopping, because they aren’t going to carry bags wherever they go or buy them.

Or order groceries thru amazon or Walmart that require cardboard boxes, don't the Koch brothers make them? Odd