October 23, 2014 – Fight the Plastic Bag Ban –
On 21 October 2014, the Fort Collins, Colorado City Council repealed the disposable bag ordinance which would have imposed a 5-cent fee for each disposable paper or plastic bag distributed by retailers in the city beginning on April 1, 2015.
More »October 20, 2014 – Plastics Today –
According to Reason Foundation, opponents’ claims that a ban on plastic bags will benefit the environment just “don’t stand up to scrutiny.” Instead, said the commentary by Lance Christensen, director of the pension reform project at Reason Foundation: “the ban is likely to do more harm than good both to the environment and to people’s pocketbooks.”
More »October 19, 2014 – Mass Live –
Public health officials in Northampton, Massachusetts plan to push back against a plan to make them the primary enforcers of a proposed citywide ban on certain plastic bags and styrofoam takeout containers at large retail and food establishments.
More »October 19, 2014 – National Center for Policy Analysis –
California recently became the first state to ban plastic bags. While 100 municipalities across the state had already banned the bags, California is the first to make such a ban statewide. Lance Christensen of the Reason Foundation explains why the bans are a bad idea, on several fronts.
More »October 12, 2014 – FlashReport –
Immediately following Gov. Jerry Brown signing the bill by Sen. Alex Padilla to ban the use of plastic bags at grocery stores and tax paper bags, now the progressive left is whining about the plastic bag industry initiating a referendum process for a vote of the people for the November 2016 election.
More »October 12, 2014 – Reason Foundation –
Proponents of the ban claim it will benefit the environment. But a comprehensive analysis recently undertaken by Reason Foundation, which looked at the impact of plastic bag bans on the environment, found these claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Indeed, the ban is likely to do more harm than good both to the environment and to people’s pocketbooks.
More »October 9, 2014 – Plastics Today –
Since California’s passage and approval of SB 270 by the California legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown, the manufacturing community has had much to say about this bill that many see as just plain “bad science.”
More »October 5, 2014 – Watchdog.org –
California became the first state in the nation to enact a statewide ban on plastic shopping bags this week, taking a concept that had been limited to nanny cities and broadening it in brand new ways.
More »October 3, 2014 – Vox –
“If you want to use your shopping choices to benefit wildlife and the environment as a whole, the type of bag you use is far less important than what you put inside it.”
More »September 30, 2014 – FlashReport –
The back room deal between the California Grocers Association and United Food and Commercial Workers labor union paid off; Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill to ban and tax plastic and paper grocery bags… despite that all types of plastic shopping bags can be recycled into new bags.
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