Jun 1 - Quick Hits to Plastic Bag Stories
- The California Grocer's Association supports a statewide bag ban because it would create a level playing field for businesses to compete in.
- AB 1998 would be even more far reaching than San Francisco's plastic bag ordinance because it would apply to all food and convenience stores.
- In Santa Cruz, citizens and elected officials come together to call on The Assembly to ban single-use plastic bags.
- If you don't think we need to do something about plastics in the environment, then you need to watch this traumatic video.
- KPBS reports that language in AB 1998 that would preempt local governments from installing their own bans.
- The LA times has a piece detailing the Plastic Lobby's efforts to block laws that would reduce plastic litter.
- The problem of plastic bag litter became deadly in the Philippines last year when a Typhoon hit the country, killing 73 people. Flooding was exacerbated by plastic bags that had clogged storm drains.
- In Louisville, Kentucky a sign at the front of a supermarket asks customers "Are your reusable bags still in the car?"
- The Mayor of tiny Chillingham Australia describes their decision to ban single use plastic bags as a means to "create an environmentally responsible and economically resilient community" .
- After the release of the Green Cities Coalition Master Environmental Assessment on plastic bags, the Petaluma City Council may see a renewed push for a local ban if it isn't preempted by the passage of AB 1998.
Current language and analyses of AB 1998