March 4, 2013 – 10news.com –
A former proponent of Solana Beach’s plastic bag ban, which passed last year, is now changing her mind. Former Mayor Celine Olson wants the city council to rethink its decision to implement the city’s plastic bag ban and overturn it.
More »March 2, 2013 – NorthJersey.com –
If a tax on grocery bags is passed and imposed on New Jersey, the results will be staggering. As a state still recovering from the long-term effects of the Great Recession and the short-term impacts of superstorm Sandy, New Jersey knows full well that economic recovery is still far off. In this climate, what have some legislators in Trenton decided demands attention? Grocery bags. A bill currently before the Legislature would impose a nickel tax on every plastic and paper bag New Jersey shoppers use at the checkout counter. This proposal only kicks residents and businesses when they are already down.
More »February 27, 2013 – SeattlePi.com –
The bag ban is contributing to thousands of dollars in losses for at least one Seattle grocery store, and questions have been raised about the risk of food-borne illness from reusable bags that shoppers don’t often wash.
More »February 25, 2013 – The Ukiah Daily Journal –
This is a simple letter hopefully to point out what is probably what most people are thinking. Plastic bags have been banned in our community by people who have not thought through the issue. Of course we all want to cut down litter and we want to save the environment and animals suffering. Education, signs, reminders would help people think through recycling. Also a modest rebate at the stores or recycling center might help.
More »February 20, 2013 – The Gazette –
There’s a proposal being pushed in Prince George’s County that I fear will harm the business and minority communities that I have committed to serve. It’s a grocery bag tax, and it will make every trip to the supermarket more expensive.
More »February 17, 2013 – PressDemocrat.com –
What is presented is a plan to ban single-use plastic bags and provide paper bags for a fee. Customers would be encouraged to shift to reusable bags. One might think that recycling bags would be considered a solution since plastic and paper bags are both recyclable.
More »February 6, 2013 – Huffington Post –
D.C.’s plastic bag fee: good for the Anacostia River, bad for people wanting to avoid gastrointestinal disease? Bloomberg recently published a fairly stomach-turning piece by columnist Ramesh Ponnuru about the downsides to plastic bag bans and taxes, like the five-cent fee in effect in the District since 2010.
More »February 6, 2013 – Corvallis Gazette-Times –
It is hard to understand. The Corvallis City Council in its wisdom passed a (plastic grocery checkout bag ban) ordinance and, at the same time, the local merchants spent lots of dollars promoting “shop locally” (which supplies employment and taxes).
More »February 6, 2013 – Plastics Today –
Mark Daniels comments on the current job market as he holds a handful of pellets with hints of a gray tone. Oftentimes when there is talk about plastic bags it’s about the product itself, but Daniels, VP of sustainability and environmental policy for bag maker and recycler Hilex Poly, believes above anything else, it’s a story about people.
More »February 5, 2013 – Mercury News –
Like children being led by the Pied Piper into a politically correct forest, Peninsula cities are following San Mateo County’s siren song by banning plastic take-out bags and charging us for any paper bags we may need — 10 cents now, 25 cents later.
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