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Statewide Ban a Trend?

Posted October 04, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

The California legislature has approved a state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags from grocery stores and pharmacies beginning in 2015. If signed by the governor, which is expected, the statewide measure will be a first in the U.S. The bill includes $2 million in loans to manufacturers to make the change to reusable bags and allows a 10 cent charge for paper and reusable bags. The nation is watching closely to see if the bill will be signed by the end of September, with other legislatures wondering if they should revamp their own state's policies if it succeeds.


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10/05/2014 7:52 AM

A better idea, but if you bring that into a California "ban" store they can charge you for it AGAIN?!?!

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10/06/2014 3:58 PM

My girl friend visited England a few years ago, and they have been using this for quite some time. I believe its a corn deriviative.

Anyways, the problem is this. You can not store anything in it (such as Christmas decorations) and put it in the attic.

What happens is that it breaks down (which is what its suppose to do) and you have a mess.

Keep it as a disposable item.

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10/05/2014 3:26 AM

The number of people who take California seriously diminishes with every passing day

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10/05/2014 6:38 AM

As California goes, so goes the country, usually.

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10/05/2014 7:01 AM

California has 'jumped the shark', so to speak. Things out there have gotten so nutty, it's become a parody of itself.

Many of the entrepreneurs have headed elsewhere, like to Texas.

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10/06/2014 9:47 AM

What do you expect from the Granola State? All the people out there are nuts, fruits and flakes. You're talking about a state that put a Health Warning out on SAND, when 2% of the state is made of Beach Sand, and the other 98% is made of Desert Sand. They tried to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, for crying out loud. H2O1, although the 1 identifier is usually omited for clarity, since an elemental symbol without a subsript is assumed to be a singleton.

(Not that I'm implying that there's anything wrong with the LGBT people as a whole. The joke was made back when things were more 'culturally insensitive,' and they were an 'acceptable target,' ant without the fruit reference, the granola analogy falls flat.)

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10/06/2014 2:55 PM

Perhaps we can look forward to some favorable representations of the policy woven into the scripts of TV shows and movies. Californians like to think of themselves as ahead of the pack, but sometimes, the way Western culture is headed is like a pack of lemmings "led" by a self-designated figurehead who's always looking over his shoulder to make sure that he stays out in front of wherever the pack is headed.

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10/06/2014 8:30 AM

It's good to see the United States begin to follow the Republic of Ireland.

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10/06/2014 11:27 AM

And yet, I can waltz into a Home Depot in California and get a single use plastic bag to carry a whole bunch of loose screws home. It's rather disingenuous to ban them in grocery stores but not everywhere else.

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10/06/2014 3:57 PM

Don't give them ideas, they may decide to make you buy an 8 foot 2x4 for 'holding' the half-dozen machine screws (aka 'stove bolts'), which they'll happily hammer in for transport free of charge.

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10/06/2014 4:46 PM

The guy is the picture is holding a bag of fruit. Which is a one time bag. So is a trash bag and sandwich bag.

How many of these will get the boot also.

So you shop in Ca you will have to have reusable bags for all your produce?

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