Purpose: To prohibit stores and restaurants from providing single-use plastic bags to customers, to require they charge 10 cents or more for single-use paper bags, to prohibit “expanded polystyrene foam” coffee cups and food containers, to prohibit offering plastic straws without request, and to create a “Single-Use Products Working Group” to study the effectiveness of policies and make recommendations for future regulation.
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Analysis: Those voting NO on this bill argue this is a regressive “tax” (10 cents or more per grocery bag over the course of a year could become a substantial cost), hitting low income Vermonters hardest, and an undue burden on businesses.
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Those voting YES argue this is a necessary government action to curtail litter. MORE
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It’s not going to reduce litter by one damn bit, most litter is created by liberal progressives anyway.
So just tax yourselves, assholes, or better yet, clean up your own habits before tending to mine.
“most litter is created by liberal progressives anyway.”
…you mean like THIS, @ Jellybean?…
https://scottthong.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/obamainaugvsteaparty.jpg
A few years ago, the city of Austin, Texas banned the use of plastic bags at stores within it’s city limits. When I would go there, I would bring a bunch of plastic Walmart bags with me into whatever store I was shopping at and bag my stuff using them.
Anyway, two years ago, the Texas legislature overturned the plastic bag ban saying it was against the Texas Constitution.
Read this article in the news this morning: https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/95-of-plastic-in-the-oceans-comes-from-third-world-countries/
FWIW
The regressives won’t be happy until we commoners are back in the pre-industrial stage of development. The better to control us and continue their royal lifestyle. Bernie, HRC, obamination, all of them.
Anonymous: I’ve read the same elsewhere. Maybe we should ban third world mind sets here in America to help with the cause. Closing the border would be a good start.
Those single use bags should be over politicians heads with duct tape at the neckline.
Locally, the progressive idiots banned the use of styrofoam carry-out food containers. The problem was that 99% of the litter around here is caused by the homeless, who are treated with kid gloves. Now we get our carry-out food in cardboard containers that get soggy and leak by the time you get home. Some restaurants ignore the law, since it isn’t enforced anyway. Did I mention that I hate progressives?
To Different Tim: YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everytime there’s a strong wind event my neighborhood tree’s are decorated with plastic bags. Not a good look.
Next visit to Burlington I’m taking $100 in rolls of dimes, going to every hipster coffee shop, purchasing every straw/plastic bag/styrofoam to-go container, accidentally trip and release them on a windy day on downtown Church Street. Ooops.
Good lord, this might just be the “final straw” for my MIL. She uses plastic grocery bags for trash as she’s too cheap to buy reg trash bags. She’s been lurching a little to the left for my comfort anyway.
You’d think they’d ban rancid old communists but no….
@SNS
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean….most areas like that are proof that progressives are out and about!
Stores need to designate their plastic bags as multiple use. Problem solved.
Personally I’m good with banning plastic straws. Go anywhere near a DQ, McD’s or whatever and those damn straws are everywhere. I can remember paper straws that were built tough enough to stand up to the old Multi-Mixer Triple Thick Shakes from McD’s so why not create some more jobs in the logging and paper products industry.
I’m not sure what these morons would use in place of foam meal packaging. You could try cardboard which would probably work for some types of take-out but you’ll still end up having lots and lots of containment problems.
I wonder whether any smart chemical company’s are working on plastics that would start to degrade and breakdown around 12 months from date of manufacture. That could be worth a huge fortune to the first one to come up with a workable product.
…anyone notice that the liberal states don’t like STRAWS in the DUMP, but have NO problem with USED NEEDLES on the SIDEWALKS?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Those-needles-littering-the-streets-The-city-12898656.php
@SNS: WTH???
‘Garcia said the program’s goal of ensuring access to sterile syringes is intended “to eliminate the transmission of blood-borne pathogens among people who inject drugs and their sexual partners.”’
DANG! People are injecting themselves with their sexual partners????
^^^ LOL!
I’m guessing that would be IN their sex partners. Although, the first way would probably be something Guinness World Records people should take a try at.
” I wonder whether any smart chemical company’s are working on plastics that would start to degrade and breakdown around 12 months from date of manufacture. ”
Grocery store bags. They fall apart as soon as I leave the store.
…California intellect on full display at the Chronicle, yes, BUT…
…if they COULD find a way to be “injecting themselves with their sexual partners”, they WOULD, @TommyBoy in IN…
…leaving aside a DIFFERENT conversation about what a male gay could “inject” into his sexual partner, of course…
Dumb dumb dumb hey! Another one bites the dust.
MJA – I remember that someone had come up with utensils from a cornstarch derived product that would breakdown in time. That was years ago but I’ve never seen them anywhere.
@MJA; I’m old enough to remember when grocery bagging was an art. The store baggers (usually shelf stockers) would pack paper bags so well that when you got home after walking for twenty minutes the bag would be intact, nothing squishable would be squished, your frozen stuff would still be frozen and when emptied the bag could be folded up neatly and put on a shelf under the sink for future use. Today the cashier packs the stuff as it comes off the line so if you don’t want stuff destroyed you need to arrange it properly on the conveyor, in the order you want it to go into the bag and then bag it yourself.
Yikes, I better be careful or I’m going to be outside yelling at those kids to get off my lawn 🙂
It’s a fallacy that Styrofoam and plastics don’t degrade. Six months of bright sunlight will turn most of them to dust. No help from progressive legislation needed.
Hopefully they ban cars and elect Corrupt Cortez governor – all while America watches.
I live in rural Vermont. There is nearly no litter of any kind with one exception. Bud Lite cans. It’s remarkable. I once picked up 6 of them on my way home along the 8 miles of dirt road.