| The era of the plastic bag is ending |
| Cloth bags may look stylish |
Pacifica Tribune, 4/16/13. "City bans plastic carryout bags on Monday"
"On Earth Day, Monday, April 22, the city of Pacifica's Reusable Bag Ordinance will launch.
Pacifica joins other cities and counties, including San Mateo County, in encouraging the use of reusable bags, promoting healthier environments for residents through the decreased use of single-use plastic bags." Read article.
Note: Left photograph from KTSF 26, 12/27/11, "San Jose plastic ban take effect on New Year's Day." Right photograph from ABC News, 1/2/12, "San Jose shoppers adjust to plastic bag ban."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
17 comments:
Go to Safeway now and ask them to triple-bag everything.
What a pain in the arse. Did council do this voluntarily?
Should we now begin to see charter bus shopping tours to towns that still do allow plastic bags?
Safeway is really pushing their shopping bags. Can't miss them.
A woman in line ahead of us today was using some dirty, smelly cloth bag. Camo print. She dug out some old Kleenex and a pair of dirty shoes and tossed the bag on the conveyor belt with her groceries. The checker and bagger looked disgusted and shared the hand-sanitizer before the customer left. What's next, surgical gloves? Diaper bags as grocery bags?
Thanks, Pacifica City Council. Was that a unanimous vote? Another step in your secret mission to make us all eco-warriors.
Deal with it.
Check out my new blog: http://fighttheplasticbagban.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/fighttheplasticbagban
On my blog I have a "documents" menu item. If you click on that there are a number of papers that I have written that can be downloaded. Our newest paper titled "plastic Bag Alternatives Much More Costly to Consumers" shows that costs to use paper and reusable bags are much more costly to the consumer than the cost of plastic bags supplied by the store. Another article titled "Fact Sheet - Landfill Impacts" shows that for every ton of plastic carryout bags kept out of the landfill, more than 4 tons of plastic bags, paper bags, reusable bags, etc. are put in the landfill after the ban, all as a direct result of the ban. There are many more articles on different aspects of the plastic bag bans.
I believe one of the main thoughts on the plastic bag ban, aside from our internal reason of keeping the bags off the beach and endangering the sea life, was the problem of the bags not breaking down in the landfill. I agree that there probably was an influx of bags because the smaller stores would just throw them away instead of sending back to Corporate or taking the time to find a way to recycle them. Paper bags, while of course recyclable, breakdown quickly in the landfill and can be use for reclamation of the land. Please send me your information at cporter@recology.com. I would very much like to read your analysis.
It was a minor inconvience at the very begining. Now like everything else its pretty easy to remember to toss the bags in the car and bring them in the store.
I noticed a couple supermarkets in Redwood City are still using plastic bags? Does their ban take place later?
Not all the cities in the county adopted the plastic bag ban.
The ban's a PITA. I always forget to throw my reusable bags in the car. Do local governments do anything other than add little hassles to everyday life?
Plastic bags are an incredibly tiny proportion of garbage, so I always felt this was one of those meaningless symbolic gestures rather than something that actually solved a problem.
Do you want some salami and cheese to go with your whine?
If I had a plastic bag, I'd put it over your head.
Why? He breathes through his navel.
Like you could catch me.
beep beep
gone in a cloud of dust!
The checker and bagger at Safeway today told me they hate the ban on plastic bags. They said it makes their job harder and it takes more time.
I had always heard that paper was 60% of the landfill and it can take 100 years and more for paper to break down once its buried and out of the sun light.
Any truth to this Chris?
stupid law. Sure ban plastic. but give me a paper bag and don't charge me for it. When I spend $100 at the supermarket, I should get free paper bags (the good kind with handles). But now the store is required by law to charge me. Stupid stupid stupid.. No one reuses these bags - except little old ladies who hold up the line while using coupons, paying by writing a check, a pulling out filthy old bags. Give me a break.
this ban is so perfect for pacifica. we're headed for the dump as a city, but we're not using plastic bags! i'm sure the plastic bag ban will figure prominently on the resumes of our more upwardly mobile clowncil members.
Safeway Employees whine more then the people who post on this blog!
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