Plastic Bag Ban in Williamson County

[PRND321]

Originally Posted by Dwayne Lassiter

Ban the bag. Those plastic bags are ridiculous pieces of trash. Here in the city, people threatened to move out when the bags were nixed. They were going ballistic because they couldn't put their box of macaroni and cheese in a plastic bag to carry it out from the store. Haven't heard from any of them since and my HEB hasn't noticed a drop in business. If they've decided to shop in Round Rock, they didn't tell anyone. People now queue up with their own reusable bags, and everyone is happy. I live on a creek, and it is absolutely amazing how little plastic floats down it now. Fences and trees aren't decorated with those bags any more.

Not everyone. Stores are happy for sure because of cost saving

[COCUE]

It's pretty easy to get these reusable bags. I think I have 10 or so in my trunk and a few in every car in my house. It seems every business gives them away for free these days perhaps as a form of free advertising. My dentists, my children's dentist, my job, my husband job, the preschool. It's like I'm a walking advertisement:-)

BTW, shop at HEB lakeline ( thought lakeline is in Cedar Park?) And they've been part of the plastic bag embargo since last year or the year before.

[JackParker81]

I bought like 15 reusable bags when this law got implemented, because I didn't have any. Because I used the cheapy plastic ones for everything from bathroom garbage bags, to lunch bags for work the grocery bags ended up pulling double duty for lunch. Now I have 3-4 of the originals left, have supplemented them with a few free ones, b ut mostly I buy those .25 cent plastic ones HEB sells to fill in gaps.

When I do my weekly shop sometimes there are a couple bags in my car that didn't get filled the time before, but sometimes I just plain forget to grab the lot of them before I run out. If they are not going to provide them they should at least allow that emergency fee they were doing. $1 to use the cheap plastic bags is fine by me.

[mark311]

Originally Posted by COCUE

BTW, shop at HEB lakeline ( thought lakeline is in Cedar Park?) And they've been part of the plastic bag embargo since last year or the year before.

That store actually has an Austin address in 78717. The other HEB's in Cedar Park up on 1431 still have plastic bags.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by COCUE

It's pretty easy to get these reusable bags. I think I have 10 or so in my trunk and a few in every car in my house. It seems every business gives them away for free these days perhaps as a form of free advertising. My dentists, my children's dentist, my job, my husband job, the preschool. It's like I'm a walking advertisement:-)

BTW, shop at HEB lakeline ( thought lakeline is in Cedar Park?) And they've been part of the plastic bag embargo since last year or the year before.

Originally Posted by mark311

That store actually has an Austin address in 78717. The other HEB's in Cedar Park up on 1431 still have plastic bags.

The HEB shopping center is in Austin...PDQ across the street(Lakeline Blvd) is Cedar Park. It gets a little zig-zaggy around there!

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

The HEB shopping center is in Austin...PDQ across the street(Lakeline Blvd) is Cedar Park. It gets a little zig-zaggy around there!

Yep, the octopus that is Austin has swallowed up considerable territory in Wilco - even north of my house in Brushy Creek! (And to think, we moved all the way up here to get away from the CoA. Looks like we didn't move far enough.


I remember when Austin tried to shove their ETJ all the way up the Colorado River bed to Marble Falls, but the legislature slapped their power-mad hands. lol

[COCUE]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Yep, the octopus that is Austin has swallowed up considerable territory in Wilco - even north of my house in Brushy Creek! (And to think, we moved all the way up here to get away from the CoA. Looks like we didn't move far enough.


I remember when Austin tried to shove their ETJ all the way up the Colorado River bed to Marble Falls, but the legislature slapped their power-mad hands. lol

Interesting stuff.. Way before my time. What was this area around Avery Ranch that has Austin address called before it became Austin? Was it Cedar Park or its own separate city per mailing address?

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by COCUE

Interesting stuff.. Way before my time. What was this area around Avery Ranch that has Austin address called before it became Austin? Was it Cedar Park or its own separate city per mailing address?

I think Brushy Creek was the dividing line between Cedar Park and Round Rock ETJs and Austin ETJ before Austin annexed Avery Ranch. Some folks might have thought it was Cedar Park since it was so far north; but there was no 'city' up here...and a couple of decades ago much of the area north of Brushy Creek(Breakaway, for example) was not part of Cedar Park proper. ScoPro can tell you some hunting stories, I reckon.

[IamCSpelch]

And in San Diego as well. //www.city-data.com/blogs/blog4...ns-single.html

[mickey65]

All the Goodwill thrift stores banned the bags also - including the ones in Williamson county.