In the wake of the failure of a statewide legislative bag ban initiative (AB1998), the city of San Jose is another California burg taking matters into its own hands - moving to fashion an ordinance to ban single-use plastic bags, and to charge for paper bags.
...and those paper bags - YES, they have to be of recycled material...which pretty much harpoons the ACC’s CEQA lawsuit strategy, which at face-value, appears to require cities to continue to pollute their environments via the scourge of the “urban tumbleweed”.
So the landslide has begun - damn the ACC’s penny-ante “solution” to the problem they’ve created for themselves…and the rest of us. We can only hope that other manufacturers are watching the ACC’s un-neighborly litigious approach go down in flames. Meanwhile, pass the gasoline!
It’s always exciting talking about California - but frankly, the “land of fruits and nuts” ain’t proving to be that progressive at heart - I’m hoping for other states to push through some statewide bans - GO USA!
Details, particulars & minutiae:
San Jose Mercury News article.
Bay area TV news from KTUV.