Plastic grocery bags banned in San Francisco

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by Victoria Revay | March 28, 2007 at 09:43 am
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San Fransisco will become the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. The mayor is expected to sign the ban after the law approved it 10-1. The petroleum based plastic bags are blamed for littering streets and choking marine life. Grocers argue that plastic bags made of products that break down, reusable cloth or recycled paper can be used.

San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule if Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected.

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

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talexander
talexander

at 14:05 on March 29th, 2007

Will the City also ban Plastic Surgery? Let's be real "green"

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chaz
chaz

at 07:56 on March 30th, 2007

So what do we do for trash bags?

 

We have to go buy them? And just how much damage will all the boxes "that our purchased bags come in" do?


What about fuel used and paper and ink, the tires added shipping weight, that's all extra for individually packaged trash bags.
Then there's the trees cut for boxes and more carbon due to fewer trees and that will increase global warming, won't it?
Also... if that oil is used in a car it releases carbon but in a bag it's trapped and won't cause global warming.

Are they creating worse problems with this solution?

Is Glad the bag maker behind this?

 

 

Thank them for

helping me

to death

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kate
kate

at 09:38 on March 30th, 2007

I want to see them replaced by those bags/things made from corn. They look like plastic -  you can't tell the difference really -  except they disintegrate and leave no trace.

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chaz
chaz

at 11:22 on March 30th, 2007

Not to be negative but:
That might cause people to starve in the third world and our beef and chicken could cost more because of the added pressure on the use of corn, also the price of Alcohol and or Bio diesel fuel may rise and it may make it less appealing to consumers, then we go back to it's causing global warming. Good thought and depending on what part of the corn is used, as to what effects it has. But it could keep the roadsides and sea turtles from being fouled with bags, unless it takes so long that the turtle will die before it degrades and the road side cleaners pick them up to go to the dump with the ten thousand other things that will never decompose.

It's crap, I know, but think about it.
Someone said "for every action there's a reaction" . I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed... so maybe someone smarter than me needs to give it a lot of thought before passing it into law. The story needs to fill in some of those blanks.

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