Last year San Francisco passed a plastic bag ban in November and in two years LA will follow suit. California supermarkets already have a bin in the front of the stores that you can place plastic bags for recycling. It wasn't until months later that some markets here in New York did also.
The City Council in LA voted to ban plastic shopping bags starting July 1, 2010. I say GREAT but why the delay? It is to give the City a chance to pass a different bill that will charge shoppers a 25-cent fee for paper or biodegradable bags or allow them to use their own bags. I know that either way it's a good move, but one that will take two years to implement. Then God knows how long it would take to spread across the nation and get to the east coast.
Of the 25-cent fee, 3 percent will go to the retailer, 3 percent to the state and the rest will go to the city for to fund an education campaign.
It is reported that currently 2 billion plastic bags are being used in California and only 5 percent of plastic bags and 21 percent of paper bags are recycled.
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Did you know that the UK is already implmenting this? One of the stores is charging 10 cents a bag, and 2 of the biggest groceries stores have given away thousands, if not millions, of their recycable bags. I have 4 right now, and when you use them the store will give you points on your card when you use the recycable bags.
I have heard that the UK with many other countries but the US signed a Green Pact. I wonder why the US did not?
Seattle will tax plastic bags!
http://news.opb.org/article/2705-no-rush-follow-seattles-plastic-bag-tax/
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/372566_bags29.html
Seattle became on Monday one of the first major American cities to discourage the use of paper and plastic shopping bags by requiring grocery, drug and convenience stores to charge 20 cents per bag. In a related action, the City Council also banned plastic foam food and drink containers.
Both laws will go into effect Jan. 1.
I love living in this "green" city!
-TheGreek
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