Calif. closer to banning plastic bags
By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee
Disposable plastic bags would be banned from grocery check-out stands in California and consumers would pay at least a dime for a paper or re-usable plastic bag under a compromise proposal negotiated with key opponents of last year’s bill to ban plastic shopping bags.
Lawmakers plan to unveil the deal Friday at a Los Angeles-area manufacturing plant.
Senate Bill 270 seeks to temper some manufacturing industry opposition by providing $2 million from state recycling funds. Plastic bag makers would be able to apply for grants to re-train their workers or re-engineer their operations to make plastic bags that meet new criteria spelled out in the bill.
Time to ban disposable diapers.
Except that there is an article published in the journal Science that shows that cloth diapers are worse for the environment. Sometimes things are not as simple as we want them to be.
As long as the ebt cards cover the price of the 5 cent paper bags. . . it’s only the middle class who will have to pay when they need one. Except we’ll be paying for them for everyone.
Time to ban plastic trash bags of all types.
lol
i bet you people buy bottled water.
what a bunch of whiny saps.
Whatever happened to the notion of leaving the world a better place for the next generation?-I guess thats been replaced by the selfish oinkers like the randians-who cares I’ll be dead-right?
@TeaTotal-the concept of leaving the world a better place for the next generation(s) doesn’t mean much to a ‘born-again’or a libertarian(sneer)…they think Jesus will just manifest another world for them, after all them bleeding heart lefties have been removed. Disposable bags, workers, planets….whatever.. Just don’t impinge upon their ‘rights’-even if they’re wrong.
This over conservation of California is almost pointless. The population in this country will grow so large there will be no room for the conservationist. Conserve or survive will come head to head. You think if this drought keeps up a few years California won’t vote to take water from Tahoe? Suck it dry to survive? You see Shasta, Almanor, Oroville and Folsom are all almost dry and this is the first bad year. Where else would the Bay Area, LA and all the central valley crops get water? Plastic bags are nothing…
The conservation of California is almost a joke. The population is growing so out of control it will all come to a head. Conserve or survive. What happens if this drought continues a few more years? Almost all of California’s reservoirs are 60% to 70% drained. You don’t think the Bay Area and Central Valley won’t want Tahoes water? Largest fresh water source in California why wouldn’t they go after it? The plastic bag is a weak issue…
I choose to think of my choices and use reusable cloth bags. It is amazing the narrow minded and disturbing responses. Shame on you for thinking your choices wont matter. Your kids and grand kids should be ashamed of you and your flat earth society attitudes. Really sad.
More and more I see myself embracing the Libertarian philosophy.
Both the left and the right want to force me to live their lifestyle. I just want to be left alone.
Rob5,
When everything is all about you, and you just want to be left alone to do whatever pleases and prospers you at the moment, and you don’t care what your lifestyle choices may mean to the rest of your fellow travelers here on earth, you don’t have to “embrace” libertarianism, you’re living it.
BijouBill,
Well, I guess it depends which camp you are in. Do you want me to not use plastic bags and embrace high speed rail and live in high density apartments or is your preference to force my female relatives to forgo abortion and contraceptives and to embrace religion in schools? I am tired of people trying to force me to support their lifestyles.