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Judge upholds San Francisco's plastic bag law (pdf)

• samstave 14y ago
  SF has supposedly banned plastic bags for some time, however you can still be handed your loot in a plastic bag in nearly every little corner market, as well as any restaurant where you are taking something to go. What i think SF should require, as opposed to banning plastic, is to require that instead corn/vegetable based bags should be used. Plastic bags offer great convenience at a pretty significatant environmental cost. For pretty much 100% of single-use, temporary applications, we should be using vegetable based materials. Look at how much plastic is used simply as packaging for even single-use products; plastic covers on straws, most food is all wrapped in plastic. We should be looking at reducing these types of packaging materials that simply gets thrown away.
  • neilkumar 14y ago
    Thats because the 2007 law only applied to large stores (ie, Safeway, Walgreens). Smaller stores were exempt.
  • binarycrusader 14y ago
    Did you read the linked PDF? SF probably did exactly what you suggested; they banned non-compostable plastic bags.
    • samstave 14y ago
      That's not working too well. :( All the bags in the city are still plain old plastic.
      • binarycrusader 14y ago
        The ban just went into effect -- and after a legal challenge even. It will take some time for everyone to switch over and enforcement to begin.