Do you remember in July 2015 when Hawai made headlines across the country because it banned plastic bags? Well, in what is fantastic news for progress, California has followed this approach and banned the use sale of plastic bags itself.
The referendum was made final by Governor Jerry Brown in 2014, but was paused until the voters approved. And now, through a statewide vote, the proposition passed with a margin of 51.97% to 48.03%.
The co-chair of Californians Against Waste (CAW) campaign, Mark Murray said that “this is a significant environmental victory that will mean an immediate elimination of the 25 million plastic bags that are polluted in California every day, threatening wildlife.”
This now means supermarkets, grocery stores, retail stores, food marts and liquor stores can no longer sell plastic bags and must search for an alternative.
Customers will now have to bring their own bag or face a 10 cent extra charge for a recycled paper bag.
Those against the bill claimed that this would kill thousands of jobs. However, it can’t be denied that this is progress for the environment and wildlife. Way to go California!
Hurray
This is good
Do disposable diapers for children next
Wait, what about trash bags… and fruit/veggie bags in the produce dept., and the bags that frozen veggies come in, and the big plastic bag that holds the toilet paper together, ban them all!!! Let’s make California more like a 3rd world country than we already are!!! For the record, those bags weren’t one time use, most people used them for trash bags as well.
That’s how I recycle them. As small trash bags for the bedrooms.
So much for recyclable plastic being a good thing.
They were probably the ones who complained the loudest to get rid of paper grocery bags years ago.
Well there’d my trash can bags…I haven’t bought trash can bags in 10-15 yrs…just “recycled” mine for trash use…why spend money u are literally throwing away!!!
Mayb better to ban sale of in-home trash bags & offer “in store credit”…bring 2 for price of 1 bag for those who reuse or recycle them at store (they charge $0.10 per bag in sum WA ST counties for those who don’t bring bags & don’t wana “Costco” it)
I use mine all ovr, in evry room, to include kitchen…forces trash to get taken out evry othr day instead of a huge can & days of a smelly kitchen/house
It’s just about cutting down on plastic use, and there still available for 10 cents that encourage you to use reusable bags. Kinda like everyone one should…
Hopefully banning Trump is next