New York – New York City Council members are introducing legislation to require merchants to charge 10 cents for every plastic shopping bag.
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Council members Brad Lander and Margaret Chin introduced the bill Tuesday.
Their measure would require stores to charge 10 cents for every plastic shopping bag used. The idea is to encourage people to start reusing the bags they already have at home.
Environmentalists say the bill would cut pollution and litter and save taxpayers $10 million a year in landfill costs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a 5-cent charge for plastic bags in 2009. It was unsuccessful.
Many West Coast cities already charge for plastic shopping bags. Last month Los Angeles decided to ban single-use plastic bags altogether.
What Baloney. Those using food stamps are not to be charged. Does it ever end?
Another way to make life more difficult in NYC.
Today it’s 10 cents and tomorrow it’s a 20 and so on.
And here comes big brother and will tax you on that 10 cents if you need more than three bags.
“Reducing plastic bags in our city will not only cut down on trash, it will beautify our streets, support small businesses, and give New Yorkers yet another way to show how an individual truly can make a difference,” said Tara DePorte of the Human Impacts Institute.
What else will it do, split the sea?
So the law basically prohibits stores from giving away something for free.
Why am I not surprised? Bc we don’t have enough ‘important ‘ regulations in ny. This is absurd. They should charge a tax just for living bc you use up so many things when your alive! How about making incentives for stores to use paper bags instead of charging the tax payer more.
Attn any council ppl who want my vote:
If you vote for this I will not just vote for your opponent, I will fundraise for them as well!
B’meila a place like LA where everyone drives so there these bag snobs are not hurting normal people as much because you take the shopping cart to the car.
But in Brooklyn where you walk to the grocery, you really think I will carry bags with me to work so that on my way home if my wife asks me to stop at the store I will have bags handy?
If you do not want to use a plastic bag then don’t use one. Don’t go forcing me to carry loose groceries.
This is aside from the fact that all my plastic bags get reused either as garbage liners or to throw out dirty diapers.
The reason why these snobs thing “no one will miss plastic bags” is because they are mostly well to do and have their bags schleped for them, they also would never reuse a plastic bag to throw out a diaper, it is below them, it only belongs in a $500 diaper genie. They also usually have a half a kid and a 1/4 dog so they hardly have much to shop for…
So to all council ppl: vote against the bags or you will pack your bags!
I use my shopping bags for garbage bags. Can anyone explain me how this measure will reduce plastic waste by me? besides costing me more.
The law would have a better chance of being upheld as constitutional, if it was either:
#1 a tax
#2 a refundable deposit, as on beverage containers.
It is unlikely that a statute that sets a minium price that a store could charge for a bag would be constitutional. In the past price cointrols that set maximum prices have sometimes been allowed, but state minimums have generally only been upheld on subsidized products such as milk, or items sold by restricted license such as alcohol or cigarettes.
If that supermarket plastic bag bought in huge quantities by a chain costs a penny, then what right does the statute have to mandate the store sell it for TEN times cost.
Here in Connecticut, many grocers give a 5 cent credit for using your own bags. Similarly, some of us don’t just trash the supermarket bags but reuse them. They are great for lining individual wastebaskets or tying up and disposing of diapers.
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Let him know that Boro Park will throw him out if he hurts us with his silly bills.
IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always looking to make life tougher for the average citizen, all in the name of what, the environment, of course!
Reusable grocery bags can be a breeding ground for dangerous food-borne bacteria and pose a serious risk to public health, according to a joint food-safety research report issued by the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University in California.
Bacteria levels found in reusable bags were significant enough to cause a wide range of serious health problems and even death. They are a particular danger for young children, who are especially vulnerable to food-borne illnesses.
The report comes at a time when some members of the California Legislature, through Assembly Bill 1998, are seeking to promote increased consumer use of reusable bags by banning plastic bags from California stores.
The report noted that “a sudden or significant increase in use of reusable bags without a major public education campaign on how to reduce cross contamination would create the risk of significant adverse public health impact.”
The report also offered policy recommendations for lawmakers, as well as tips for consumers who use reusable grocery bags.
I have a better way to save money or whatever it is and that’s by GETTING RID OF ALL SOCIALIST LIBERAL DEMOCREEPS!!
this is as tyrannical as you can get….almost everyone I know reuses these bags, as garbage bags, as diaper bags, as lunch bags etc etc – this will only cause the cost of food to go up….each of use should flood the counsel with calls
Time to put Bloomberg in a bag and ship him out.
Any donors???
i think we should charge 10 cents per every dumb word in a bill a liberal in nyc council writes. we can balance budget in just a few days. anyone who thinks voting democrat “helps” us becuase these morons “understand” our community, like lander, diblasio, quinn, and the list goes on, just remember this absurd and actually deadly idea!! food bourne illnesses are on the rise on the left coast and in yuppie communities throughout the country. (Then again, maybe this is a good idea. it will kill off all the liberals!)
The picture has wallmart bags, yet no Walmart stores in NYC. Things that make you say hmmm.
Let Her Blumy cut down on his staff at his residence to cut down maintenence to cut out pollution
It is standard practice here in the UK for stores to charge for plastic bags. Normally 5 to 10 pence. Reusable fabric bags are standard too and society continues happily on its merry way. It is becoming increasingly rare to find plastic bags littering the street, and shopping is as comfortable and easy as it ever was.
It’s a lot of work to clean up stray plastic bags… but the rub, though, is that the basic science says a plastic bag tax is PURELY SYMBOLIC SUSTAINABILITY. It’s because the impact of a product is most directly measured by the human consumption that **the money paid for it results in**. So… the most basic true estimate of the impact of a plastic bag on the environment is that,,,
+++WHAT WE PUT IN THE BAG
HAS THOUSANDS OF TIMES THE IMPACT AS THE BAG+++
We need to face the reality here, nature is really not all that concerned with our symbolic gestures!