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"San Francisco has the wherewithal to charge that much. San Francisco has a different income group," Reyes said. "Here in Los Angeles, I would rather work with the industry before we get into that."
San Francisco officials are considering a fee of 17 cents per bag in a bid to encourage Bay Area shoppers to bring their own sacks in an effort to recoup the cost of grocery-bag litter.
Reyes' proposal to create a task force on plastic bags will likely go to the full City Council next week after being approved Wednesday by the council's Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee. Reyes hopes the task force will hold its first meeting in March and produce recommendations 60 days later.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We suspect this eye-catching, but ultimately doomed, proposal will get buried and never see the light of day.
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Despite the fact the plastic grocery bags do cause litter, an intersting fact to point out is that the plastic grocery bags are made out of is a by product of gasoline. Since our nation is dependent on oil, we will always have plenty of grocery bags.
It's just another reminder that we all need to bring our own sacks to the grocery store. It's really not that big of a deal to remember.
A couple weeks ago, I brought my sack to Vons, and as the bagging clerk was holding it IN HER HANDS, she asks me, "Paper or plastic?"
"Uh, you can just use that..."
On the petroleum note, most laundry detergents use a lot of petroleum that we're not aware of. You should get natural laundry detergent like Trader Joe's. :)
A good point, SMO. Hadn't known that, or given it any thought. Somebody should manufacture heavy canvas sacks, with handles, shaped like the paper Whole Foods bags, and promote them as a way to save petroleum. (Canvas book bag type bags are too small.) Then again, somebody with a better economic brain than mine should figure out if that works out as a real savings vis a vis what goes into growing the cotton, manufacturing the bags, etc.