June 14, 2012 – Aspen Daily News –
As a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, I have to agree with Tom Clark, Jr. of Clark’s Market who had concerns about the safety of bags obtained from these banks. Reusable bags can pose a threat to your family’s health.
More »June 12, 2012 – The Herald News –
Those who believe strongly in recycling, and count us among them, should be encouraged by a bill that passed in the final hours of the Legislature’s spring session, creating a statewide program for recycling plastic bags and film.
More »June 6, 2012 – National Review Online –
In late May, the city of Los Angeles banned plastic bags. Pushed by Hollywood liberals who were allegedly concerned about the environmental and economic impacts of plastic bags, the ban will take place over the next year.
More »June 5, 2012 – Watchdog.org –
Not that long ago, paper bags were the only thing you received to put your groceries in. Then along came the environmentalists who realized that paper bags came from trees and cutting down trees is — duh! — not good for the environment. Never mind the fact that trees are a ‘sustainable’ resource, in that we can always grow more of them, we still needed to ‘save the planet’ and stop using paper bags.
More »June 2, 2012 – Caller.com –
City Hall is taking a sensible approach in response to a campaign against plastic grocery bags. City staff is focusing on the root cause — littering — rather than the unsightly symptom targeted by the campaign.
More »May 30, 2012 – Thomas Net News –
When one thinks of ecological issues that Los Angeles faces, a few come to mind as being particularly serious, threatening the quality of life in the city. So in their wisdom, the Los Angeles City Council, while coughing from auto exhaust, recently decided to ban plastic and paper grocery bags from the City of Angels. Was the city in danger of being overrun by discarded grocery bags?
More »May 25, 2012 – Huffington Post –
“How can the most plastic city in America turn its back on plastic bags?” That’s the question comedian Jimmy Kimmel asked on his show Thursday night after the LA city council voted to ban plastic grocery bags.
More »May 17, 2012 – The Daily Caller –
California nanny-staters are at it again. Sometime later this month, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to pass a ban on plastic carryout bags. Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the first U.S. city to impose a plastic bag ban and California accounts for almost two-thirds of the 74 plastic-related bans in the U.S.
More »May 9, 2012 – USA Today –
Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that members of a Beaverton girls’ soccer team passed around when they shared cookies.
More »May 6, 2012 – The Weekly Standard –
This month, the Los Angeles city council is expected to ban single-use plastic bags. “[T]he ban is an attempt by the city to reduce litter,” says the Los Angeles Daily News. But it is likely to reduce something else: jobs.
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