June 5, 2014 – Orange County Register –
SB270 outlaws plastic bags typically used at the checkout in grocery stores, pharmacies and other retailers. The bill also assesses a 10 cent tax on every paper bag. SB270, which has been approved by the Senate and passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, now awaits a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The main problem with this proposal is it’s an unnecessary and punitive tax that seeks to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist. A plastic bag ban and paper bag tax may even have negative health consequences.
More »June 3, 2014 – Newburyport Daily News –
Outlawing plastic bags will only increase the litter problem. Think of the benefits: Animal waste removal.
More »June 3, 2014 – Los Angeles Daily News –
SB 270 doesn’t live up to any of the environmental credentials its supporters thought. It eliminates manufacturing and recycling-industry jobs and provides a big political handout from our citizens to the California Grocers Association.
More »May 18, 2014 –
Ad features some of the 2,000 Californians who could lose their jobs if SB 270 passes
More »May 14, 2014 – Fox & Hounds –
There is a special brand of irony amid all the recent Compost Week hoopla at the State Capitol: Californians Against Waste finds itself sponsoring of two bills that are completely at odds with one another in a move that some insiders are considering to be a calculated attempt to secure a fundraising push within the environmental community.
More »May 12, 2014 – The Sacramento Bee –
The Capitol’s years-long debate over plastic grocery bags is heading to a TV set near you, as a plastic industry association launches an ad campaign Wednesday opposing the latest attempt to ban disposable plastic check-out bags in California.
More »May 12, 2014 –
Ads will highlight Sen. Padilla’s misguided bag ban proposal as legislation that will kill California jobs, scam consumers to enrich grocers.
More »May 4, 2014 – Chicago Tribune –
Let me make sure I understand this right. On the same day the Chicago City Council voted to ban the use of plastic bags, it also voted to expand beer and alcohol sales to start at 8 a.m. on Sundays.
More »April 3, 2014 – The Coloradoan –
Will Fort Collins be the next “blind sheep city” that jumps off the “plastic bag cliff,” just as so many other cities have been doing? The Fort Collins City Council is considering an ordinance requiring an additional charge to be passed on to the consumer for each bag used.
More »March 20, 2014 – The Union –
Well, here we go again. First, we give up paper sacks because too many trees were being removed to make paper (paper mills closed and people were out of work). Plastic became the new, better and acclaimed material for everything, including grocery bags.
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