February 3, 2013 – Bloomberg –
The efforts in many cities to discourage the use of plastic bags demonstrate that such unintended consequences can be, among other things, kind of gross. San Francisco has been discouraging plastic bags since 2007, saying that it takes too much oil to make them and that used bags pollute waterways and kill marine animals.
More »February 1, 2013 – The Olympian –
People with cars can keep grocery tote bags in the car, but think about the single mother who works and goes to school, lives miles from a big grocery store, and whose only transportation is buses. Carrying tote bags around with her along with her lunch, extra uniform, textbooks and whatever else she needs to get through her work day (or, often, work night) adds to her chores.
More »February 1, 2013 – Corvallis Gazette-Times –
Corvallis’ bag policy has been in effect for a month, but controversy over the issue still is simmering. It still has opponents in town (a group is gathering signatures to put the matter on the ballot) and the Gazette-Times continues to receive letters and reader comments.
More »January 31, 2013 – Plastics News –
To the untrained eye it might look like a growing coalition of environmental groups are pushing bans on plastic bags throughout the country. We in the industry know the truth. Only a small number of communities in the United States have even considered a bag ban. Nonetheless, we need to take the defense of our industry and our workforce extremely seriously.
More »January 31, 2013 – Wamu 88.5 –
When Montgomery County lawmakers approved a 5 cent tax on plastic shopping bags, their goal was to change residents’ behavior and encourage the use of reusable bags. According to data that has been collected, that hasn’t happened.
More »January 31, 2013 – Redding.com –
Marc Beauchamp says we should ban plastic bags. At our house, we save plastic bags and reuse them. We don’t use paper bags; that’s a waste. We store the plastic bags in a container and reuse them.
More »January 26, 2013 – OrovilleMR.com –
The reusable grocery bags that shoppers use instead of plastic bags are breeding grounds for E. coli and other harmful bacteria, according to a new report by university researchers. Studies “suggest reusable grocery bags harbor harmful bacteria, including E. coli,” say researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, and George Mason University School of Law and Department of Economics.
More »January 24, 2013 – ABA Journal –
Case Western Reserve law professor Jonathan Adler notes at the Volokh Conspiracy that two law professors have written a paper asserting that emergency room visits spiked in San Francisco after the ban went into effect in 2007.
More »January 23, 2013 – Willits News –
The Willits City Council voted 2-3 not to follow the rest of the county’s ban on disposable plastic bags. Mayor Holly Madrigal and Councilwoman Madge Strong were the two votes in favor of the ordinance. This followed on the heels of Tuesday’s emergency vote by the board of supervisors temporarily modifying the county’s plastic bag ordinance for all businesses within 25 miles of Willits. Supervisors lifted the county’s requirement forcing customers to pay 10 cents each for paper bags for the next six months. The board determined this requirement created an unfair economic disadvantage for business such as Geiger’s in Laytonville.
More »January 22, 2013 – Forbes –
Like most residents in this swamp-by-the-Potomac, three years ago I began toting my groceries in a reusable cloth bag, rather than paying five cents for each “single-use” plastic bag from the checkout stand. Make that “grosseries”. Not long after, it became obvious that my bag, a freebie from the National Book Festival, was a mini-compost pile, with a pretty obvious lining of various meat and vegetable sleazes.
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