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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on July 23, 2008, 06:37:23 AM
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No plastic bags in LA stores beginning July 2010
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles shoppers soon won't hear the question, "Paper or plastic?" at the checkout line.
The City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic shopping bags from stores, beginning July 1, 2010. Shoppers can either bring their own bags or pay 25 cents for a paper bag.
The council's unanimous vote also puts pressure on the state, which is considering an Assembly bill that would ban plastic bags in 2012 and charge at least 15 cents per paper bag.
MORE (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923BFN80&show_article=1)
Just what is needed...more government meddling in businesses....a bag tax. :banghead:
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Not only is it stupid for the govt to intervene, I think they are (again) forgetting the law of unintended consequences:
1. as long as bags are still available for a fee, people will use them out of habit and convenience and not bring their own recyclable ones
2. impulse shopping will be cut down if you have to plan to bring your own bags and want to avoid the fee
3. Some people say that paper bags are just as bad for the environment
This is nothing more than symbolic law making.
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Damn! It's becoming increasingly hard to huff paint in Californication. Now more of societies degenerates will move out of California and into my state.
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so while i'm hoarding light bulbs, i now need to hoard plastic trash bags to clean up after my dog?
okie dokie.. :popcorn:
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so while i'm hoarding light bulbs, i now need to hoard plastic trash bags to clean up after my dog?
okie dokie.. :popcorn:
Nah, just use Ziplock bags and mail 'em to the mayor of LA. :innocent: :-)
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You'd think that LA has a few more pressing problems than shopping bags.....
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I had to pay .15 for 3 plastic bags at IKEA last weekend. The cashier really wanted me to buy a reusable bag for .99. I told her whichever bag I was getting would eventually end up in the dumpster so I would rather spend .15 as opposed to .99 (I use them for trash can liners first) .
She looked pissed.
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I had to pay .15 for 3 plastic bags at IKEA last weekend. The cashier really wanted me to buy a reusable bag for .99. I told her whichever bag I was getting would eventually end up in the dumpster so I would rather spend .15 as opposed to .99 (I use them for trash can liners first) .
She looked pissed.
Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
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Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
Wait. I'm confused. Three cents off of what? The grocery bill? The cost of the bag? Sorry, I'm a little slow. :thatsright:
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Damn! It's becoming increasingly hard to huff paint in Californication. Now more of societies degenerates will move out of California and into my state.
How do they expect us to bag DUmmie bodies in the camps now?
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Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
Wait. I'm confused. Three cents off of what? The grocery bill? The cost of the bag? Sorry, I'm a little slow. :thatsright:
They just deduct it from the total bill.
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Damn! It's becoming increasingly hard to huff paint in Californication. Now more of societies degenerates will move out of California and into my state.
How do they expect us to bag DUmmie bodies in the camps now?
Just use some of that tinfoil they always carry around. :-)
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Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
Wait. I'm confused. Three cents off of what? The grocery bill? The cost of the bag? Sorry, I'm a little slow. :thatsright:
They just deduct it from the total bill.
Okay, that's what I thought. We have Frys stores here (owned by Kroger) and they sell reusable bags but are not yet charging customers to keep using plastic bags.
I have a couple of reusable bags, but I always forget to take them in. So I still end up with the plastic bags.
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Man, this stuff makes me thank GOD I live in the Southeast.
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so while i'm hoarding light bulbs, i now need to hoard plastic trash bags to clean up after my dog?
okie dokie.. :popcorn:
Nah, just use Ziplock bags and mail 'em to the mayor of LA. :innocent: :-)
now there's a thought! :-) although, it cracks me up that a bi-product that would naturally break down is now in a plastic bag that takes 'hundreds of thousands' of years to break down. :whatever:
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Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
Wait. I'm confused. Three cents off of what? The grocery bill? The cost of the bag? Sorry, I'm a little slow. :thatsright:
They just deduct it from the total bill.
whoopie shit. :bs:
Remind me to NEVER shop there.
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Kroger grocery stores here give you $.03 off for small reusable bags and $0.5 for large ones instead of charging you for their bags.
Kroger offers the carrot rather than the stick. :rimshot:
Wait. I'm confused. Three cents off of what? The grocery bill? The cost of the bag? Sorry, I'm a little slow. :thatsright:
They just deduct it from the total bill.
whoopie shit. :bs:
Remind me to NEVER shop there.
Why not? They don't make a big deal out of it.
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These "environmentalists" are a bunch of Don Quixotes. They are so quixotic.
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These "environmentalists" are a bunch of Don Quixotes. They are so quixotic.
Exactly, and weren't they the same people who shoved plastic bags down our throats?