California Plastic Bag Ban Would Be First Of Its Kind In The Nation

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Oh, that is so sad! I got so excited for a minute there about going to meet him. I read about him on the winery website. What a smart man to invest his money the way he did in real estate, etc.

I had no idea he was still around until 2010. Wish I'd gone to see him.

Sigh.

He got very smart after Walt Disney personally stiffed him so he started his own production company as well as the winery.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Originally Posted by NoMoreSnowForMe

Oh, that is so sad! I got so excited for a minute there about going to meet him. I read about him on the winery website. What a smart man to invest his money the way he did in real estate, etc.

I had no idea he was still around until 2010. Wish I'd gone to see him.

Sigh.

We met him at a private function in the 1990s. A very gracious man, still enormously good-looking, and wearing his buckskin outfit for the sake of all us baby boomers. That was a memorable day.

[bigdumbgod]

...but does he support the bag ban? (See how we get back on topic?)

[sourdough]

I live in Carpinteria(13,000+ pop.) we have had a plastic bag ban @ the grocery stores since 2012. A city group, Carp Beautiful has just held its first year meeting and stated 600,000 dog **** bags are ready to be distributed to the dispensary boxes thur out the city. Bag theft and abuse are rampant they said. So much for a bag ban….

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by sourdough

Carp Beautiful has just held its first year meeting and stated 600,000 dog **** bags are ready to be distributed to the dispensary boxes thur out the city. Bag theft and abuse are rampant they said. So much for a bag ban….

The ban is on the single use plastic bags that were formerly distributed at check out registers, not the small bags used for produce. The former is the type of bag that is most frequently disposed of improperly. Carpinteria Beautiful - reusable bag program

[sourdough]

And 600,000 dog poop (which doesn't include produce) bags for a population of 13,000+. How many state wide produce bags will be used ? my point is the bottom line(below)
from Carpinteria Beautiful….
Why do we feel so strongly about the plastic bag issue?
Carpinteria Salt Marsh The Numbers Tell the Story

In California alone, over 600 plastic bags are used and discarded every second!
Plastic bags do not biodegrade. TThey break up into tiny toxic bits that remain in the environment indefinitely.
Hundreds of thousands of seabirds and sea mammals are dying from ingesting or becoming entangled in discarded plastic.
Whole areas of the ocean have been found to now have more plastic bits than bio-mass (living matter).
Plastic bags are made from petroleum, unnecessarily wasting huge amounts of this increasingly scarce resource.
Plastic bags cost retailers millions of dollars each year, a cost passed on to the consumer.
More millions in tax dollars are spent annually trying to clean up littered bags.
Only 5% of plastic bags are recycled. Those that are put in the waste stream are choking our landfills.

[JGC97]

Why do we feel so strongly about the plastic bag issue?

I have absolutely no idea when there are so many other things that pollute this planet. It's a mystery to me.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by HereOnMars

I have absolutely no idea when there are so many other things that pollute this planet. It's a mystery to me.

It's something that people can actually, literally grasp. Most other pollution issues involve complexities beyond what Joe Average can tackle.