WFB: Denver officials are researching the potential of a plastic bag ban in the city once the newly elected Democratic legislature clears the way.
While the Denver City Council has not formally introduced a bill yet, the comments come as a signal to the new Democrat-controlled General Assembly. Democrats maintained control of the governorship and House of Representatives in the November elections and flipped the Senate.
A decades-old law barred local governments from banning plastic products, a law some cities in Colorado have ignored. Aspen, Crested Butte and Telluride have laws on the books banning bags. Other major cities across the U.S., like Seattle, Portland and Boston, already have banned plastic bags.
“With a new class of legislators going in, there is a lot of hope this will be the year that law will go away,” Denver City Council President Jolon Clark said, according to 9news.com.
Clark said he’s talked with Democratic leadership in the General Assembly and indicated the city council would not introduce a bill until the legislature repealed the law, according to Denverite.
“I think it could open a lot of doors that I am personally excited about,” Clark said about the potential of the General Assembly clearing the way for municipalities to ban bags. more here
The people would be better off with a ban on
Denver officials.
Why do public ” servants ”
think they have a right to dictate to
their masters.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room that the greenies choose to ignore, is the fact that the litter problem was largely solved until the explosion in the number of third world immigrants from countries where roadside litter is a way of life. Coupled with the homeless who leave a trail of crap (literally and figuratively) wherever they go,
All the cannabis dispensaries use plastic envelopes that are resealable.
You know damn well they won’t do anything to stop the dope-train.
By all mean, ban plastic bags but keep the borders open to disease carriers, rapists, murderers, and all sort of vermin! Assholes!
Wherever you see this legislation
proposed you know the place is
full of the lefty pigs who use
the streets for their garbage dump.
It is a “stay away unless you have a snout” notice to normal people.
denver has the advantage that all their litter gets blown by the wind to Kansas.
They’ll mandate smokeable hemp bags
Just based on weight, paper bags are 7.85 times heavier than plastic. Just based on transporting that around, they will be destroying the environment exponentially faster.
Why are liberal tree huggers so eager to kill trees and use their dead carcasses for 5-minute disposable tasks? Goddamn murderers.
Here’s what they aren’t telling you: Paper AND plastic are both highly recyclable. Plastic shopping bags came onto the scene in the 70s to reduce deforestation (murder of trees). Paper uses more than 20 times the amount of water than plastic for recycling, and much more energy just in transportation. As for reusable cotton bags, you would have to take that same single bag on a grocery trip over 130 times to reduce the impact over a single plastic bag. And a lot more than 130 trips if you wash those bags, as you should, unless you like transporting around E.coli.
Plastic is far more superior, for convenience and the environment. The problem is progressives haven’t figured out how to use a trash can yet. We all suffer because a few birds have plastic bits in their tummies and the progressives cry about it because using a trash can properly is obviously too difficult of a task.
Denver. *spits*
Rich libtards have ruined Aspen.
The Carbondale>Basalt>Snowmass>Aspen corridor is a mess.
Woody Creek is doomed.
I just read on a lefty website (didn’t know it was) that dozens of countries have banned plastic bags, non-recyclable plastic or plastic altogether in certain categories. This is Denver wanting to be with the utopian “in crowd.”
I guess a choice between paper and plastic is verboten. Choice is only good in the abortion realm.
“I think it could open a lot of doors that I am personally excited about,” Clark said. Just one more step toward total control. I just want to open one door on him, the hangmens trap door. That I could get excited about.
Paper bag. Cut top off along fold. Place top into bottom of bag. Roll top edge down. Pop popcorn. Pour into bag. Eat popcorn. Throw bag away.
Make lemonade people.
Check out George Carlin on plastic. youtube. Pretty funny.
But……but…..what am I going to scoop my cat poop and litter into??
Denver county council just voted to create places where junkies can shoot up under medical supervision. Pretty soon they’ll be offering free heroin, etc.
Any government agency that has time to worry about issues such as this, does not need to exist.
Tom Dually, recently visited public official who works those cities. Suicide rate atrocious. Most victims extremely well educated, living off grandmother’s trust fund, 30s-40s, never had a job, miserable relationships. Some into drugs some into alcohol, some into with both. All liberal.
This will likely end up being one of the least damaging things an all dem congress and leftist gov Polis will do in the next two years. Get ready for higher taxes/fees, TABOR to be badley compromised if not destroyed, more gun grabs (reversing college carrying laws etc), and driving oil and fracking out. Glad I got the hell out of there in 2017.
Austin had a ban on plastic bags for years until the Texas legislature recently deemed the ban in violation of the state constitution. Austin now has plastic bags, again. Don’t mess with Texas!
Around the time I left CA a few decades ago, they were starting a “save the trees, use plastic bags” campaign.
Leftists do nothing but spin around in circles, and like a tornado, suck the unwary in with them.