Comments on: Paper Or Paper? L.A. Bans Plastic Bags

Los Angeles Uses More Than 2 Billion Bags A Year; Ban Aims To Reduce Litter

[displeased]

For us penny pinchers,,we have canvas bags.
Posted by slim1h2o

Actually, mine is canvas too. They were only $1 each ($2 for the insulated ones).

[slim1h2o]

Posted by fstop100 at 02:16 PM : Jul 23, 2008

That would eliminate 99.99 percent of the products that you use then.
Cheers!

[slim1h2o]

Posted by Displeased at 02:09 PM : Jul 23, 2008

For us penny pinchers,,we have canvas bags. Don''t cost as much, and I''m not in the sun long enough to get the type you have.

They are nice though!

[fstop100]

this is great, use use more oil to produce plastic than we do to make gasoline. all plastic products should be banned in this country.

[displeased]

Here, they have made special cloth bags that we can buy, and we can use them over and over again.
Posted by erasmus81 at 01:20 PM : Jul 23, 2008

We have them too,,(sigh)
Posted by slim1h2o

I''ve been enjoying the reusable cloth bags. They hold much more than paper or plastic and have many other uses (and some are lined with that cooler material). I buy very little when grocery shopping so one or two bags are plenty for me. They would probably be inconvenient for the typical heavy fatty calorie consuming family.

[jgallaway81]

You know.. that raises an excellent point....

I wonder how many tons of carbon dioxide the average politician spews forth in the course of their "duties" annually.

If the United States abolishes ALL politicians, does that count toward our efforts to comply with the Kyoto Treaty?

[loneeagle57]

By taxing citizens for using plastic bags is just another way for the sleaze ball politicians to line their pockets.
Personally I think politics should be a volunteer job. Lets see how many people want it now

[jackie0428]

Stupid.
The insane liberal "Nanny Culture" strikes again.

[govwatch-2009]

The last time I was in LA it was not the plastic bags that were the trash on the streets, it was the newspapers. I would suggest that ban all newspaper if they really want to clean up LA. Next would be the politicians that create all the carbon dioxide by talking too much.

[loneeagle57]

If you eliminate the plastic bags, what are the homeless going to collect their cans in?

[slim1h2o]

Here, they have made special cloth bags that we can buy, and we can use them over and over again.

Posted by erasmus81 at 01:20 PM : Jul 23, 2008

We have them too,,(sigh)

[jgallaway81]

This is just yet another example of WHY california is vying with New Jersey and New York for the first state in the nation to go bankrupt.

But it does beg the serious question... WHAT education programs are going to be funded... how to tell the difference between paper and plastic?

[cfin5]

What''s this? The environmental intelNOT''S of San Franfornicato gonna quit using plastic so they can chop down some more trees? Poor trees, and the Spotted Owl,......THNIF! What''s next? Paper condoms? Now I know where Polucifer gets it from. Got it honest (cough!) though.

[loneeagle57]

Just another ******* idea from the laughing stock of the country!
What''s next for you california? Gonna ban Mcdonalds because eating there will make you fat? Oh shi t I just gave them another idea. My deepest apologies to those residents and citizens of California.

[erasmus81]

They need to ban both paper and plastic. Here, they have made special cloth bags that we can buy, and we can use them over and over again.

[dimmu19]

I''ve been using biodegradable bags at my local store for months now. Each bag gives me 3 cent credit so they pay for them self and then some.

[rillifane]

navpro - That would be education in how to rip off the consumer to fund phoney baloney jobs for the friends and relatives of politicians.

Check out most schemes like this and you fnd the real purpose is to create government jobs for supporters of the political left.

[au_fait]

Three percent of the bag fee will be returned to the retailer, 3 percent will go to the state, and the rest will go back to the city to fund an education campaign. Now you see why it was passed. It is a form of tax that a city collects. It might have started as a way to help with pollution, but it became a cha-ching when the city decided to take a 76% tax.

[bobnjersey]

2 billion out of the annual cycle?

there''s only 378 billion more per year ... in the us alone ... going into the trash ... on the ground ... into the storm drain ... etc.

[Gary Kempf]

Three percent of the bag fee will be returned to the retailer, 3 percent will go to the state, and the rest will go back to the city to fund an education campaign.

So what education would that be???