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It's not like they are going to stop you from taking as many bags from all the cash registers once they start charging. I always grab a ton of plastic bags and stick them in my shopping bags so I can use at home for trash and dog poop. The only thing that worries me now is that it might be considered shop lifting and a crime if you take them!
It's not like they are going to stop you from taking as many bags from all the cash registers once they start charging. I always grab a ton of plastic bags and stick them in my shopping bags so I can use at home for trash and dog poop. The only thing that worries me now is that it might be considered shop lifting and a crime if you take them!
The best thing to do is to write/email NOW your State Assemblyman and Cuomo to stop it.
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The best thing to do is to write/email NOW your State Assemblyman and Cuomo to stop it.
I am super apathetic. Like most people. I am not going to write a letter to them screaming about why I think I am entitled to free plastic bags. Id be mortified if it was published somewhere lol. Not the hill I want to die on, even if that hill has dog turds all over it. Do you ever watch local channel 1 when they have callers call in with their city gripes!? oooof I'll just eat the 5 cent bag tax and then have to figure out how to conserve 5 cents in another way, which sucks cuz i am starting to run outta ways.
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The best thing to do is to write/email NOW your State Assemblyman and Cuomo to stop it.
I am super apathetic. Like most people. I am not going to write a letter to them screaming about why I think I am entitled to free plastic bags. Id be mortified if it was published somewhere lol. Not the hill I want to die on, even if that hill has dog turds all over it. Do you ever watch local channel 1 when they have callers call in with their city gripes!? oooof I'll just eat the 5 cent bag tax and then have to figure out how to conserve 5 cents in another way, which sucks cuz i am starting to run outta ways.
“Id be mortified if it was published somewhere lol.”
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"I am super apathetic."
That's not really correct since you are writing on this website.
Honestly, I don't know anyone who cleans their reusable bags properly. To 'properly' clean a reusable bag, you're supposed to put it in the washing machine after every time you carry unclean fruits and vegetables and/or uncooked meat. Most people never wash their reusable bags/or wash them like once a month or something. Reusable bags can carry salmonella and other bacteria if you don't wash them after every use.
This. They're not sanitary.
I'm really happy for San Francisco and Canada which apparently don't have many low-income communities.
Personally, I reuse all of my plastic bags for umbrella bags, rain boots, and finally garbage and recycling. The idea of buying a trash bag for the sole purpose of garbage always baffled me, but I was partially raised by my grandfather who grew up doing the Depression. I use reusable bags because they're stronger and i need that for a long commute, but anything cold or perishable is going into a plastic bag, because I only have time to go to the laundromat twice a month. I usually refuse small bags from a bodega because I rarely reuse it.
I always take my garbage out every night in small plastic bags. I've never had roaches or mice when I lived alone or with clean roommates. And when I'm on the rag I make sure I throw the pad out in the morning.
If my 5 cent bag gets ripped am I entitled to an exchange? If I'm at a second-hand store, can my bag be free? I'm already doing the environment and nonprofit a favor. Is there going to be a 'fee' for trash bags, too?
I am stocking up on bags. I can start buying my groceries in Nassau County.
As of this date, the status is that the bill passed the NYS Senate as S362 and is in committee in the NYS Assembly as A1750.
It needs to pass the Assembly and then S362 and A1750 be in agreement and then the final version be signed by the Governor.
It is far from being automatic. Therefore, email your State Assemblyman and Gov. Cuomo.
NYC should have invested in developing a bio-degradable bag OR in developing a process which could degrade existing bags, in addition to enforcing better the littering laws.
Rather, their inconsiderate, simplistic approach was to simply “DICTATE” their will on others.
If, therefore, NYC wanted to affect the lifestyle of ALL its constituents, then, they MUST put it as a proposition on the ballot. That is called “DEMOCRACY”!
This is NOT an environmental issue; but, rather, NYC must be told to be democratic and not dictatorial.
By being apathetic and saying “that is the way things are”, then, segregation would never have ended. We must remind the politicians that we hired them on Election Day to work for us and not to dictate to us; otherwise, we would fire them at the next Election Day.
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