California Outlaws Plastic Bags

[Independentthinker]

only to find the laws made the problems worse. Way to go California, a state which always passes laws to stop wealth inequality, homelessness, and social injustice, only to find that everything they do makes the problems even worse. And, they want to do for the country everything they have done for California. No thanks.

California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired. Lawmakers are trying again

Ten years after California passed landmark legislation to reduce plastic bag use, the tonnage of discarded bags has skyrocketed. What happened?

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[hjmick]

I lived there when they banned paper bags in favor of plastic... because save the trees...

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Starting next year the little plastic bags you put produce in will be banned. California is getting worse every year.

 

[Edgetho]

Everything dimocrap scum touch turns to shit. It's not that they're stupid so much as they're FUCKING stupid.

The Government You Elect Is The Government You Deserve ~~ Thomas Jefferson

 

[Independentthinker]

I lived there when they banned paper bags in favor of plastic... because save the trees...

And yet they are still griping that we need to save trees.

 

[Auld Phart]

I lived there when they banned paper bags in favor of plastic... because save the trees...

just thinking of that

 

[Lesh]

New York banned them a couple years ago.

Not a real big deal and folks don’t miss them hanging from trees

 

[Lesh]

We use reusable plastic sacks, cotton sacks, and yes a few paper bags

Not a problem

 

[Edgetho]

We use reusable plastic sacks, cotton sacks, and yes a few paper bags

Not a problem

We don't ban much of anything in Florida. But our people aren't a bunch of dimocrap scumbags either.

So there's that

 

[Independentthinker]

New York banned them a couple years ago.

Not a real big deal and folks don’t miss them hanging from trees

Didn't read the link in the OP, did you?

 

[Lesh]

Didn't read the link in the OP, did you?

Nope. Why? What did I miss?

 

[Independentthinker]

Nope. Why? What did I miss?

After the laws went into effect, things got worse.

 

[Lesh]

After the laws went into effect, things got worse.

I read it and guess what? New York and New Jersey encountered the same problem and overcame it

 

[toobfreak]

Pretty funny really.

I remember when they banned paper bags to save the trees as plastic was cheaper and could be recycled.

Just that there is now far more plastic than anyone wants and most doesn't get recycled anyway and recycled plastic is crappy too.

So back to the paper bags except now, we have far fewer trees than 40 years ago to make them from!

 

[Independentthinker]

I read it and guess what? New York and New Jersey encountered the same problem and overcame it

New York and New Jersey are shithole states.

 

[Lesh]

New York and New Jersey are shithole states.

Hella response jackass

 

[Independentthinker]

Pretty funny really.

I remember when they banned paper bags to save the trees as plastic was cheaper and could be recycled.

Just that there is now far more plastic than anyone wants and most doesn't get recycled anyway and recycled plastic is crappy too.

So back to the paper bags except now, we have far fewer trees than 40 years ago to make them from!

How can that be? We saved the trees by not using paper bags anymore.

 

[toobfreak]

How can that be? We saved the trees by not using paper bags anymore.

That just allowed us to up their consumption for something else.

 

[Harry Dresden]

its funny how they dont think plastic garbage bags are a problem....

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

only to find the laws made the problems worse. Way to go California, a state which always passes laws to stop wealth inequality, homelessness, and social injustice, only to find that everything they do makes the problems even worse. And, they want to do for the country everything they have done for California. No thanks.

California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired. Lawmakers are trying again

Ten years after California passed landmark legislation to reduce plastic bag use, the tonnage of discarded bags has skyrocketed. What happened?

www.aol.com

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What took them so long? WA state banned plastic bags 8 or 10 years ago.

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