Plastic and Paper bags "outlawed"

Portland is looking into the same thing.

I like the idea on the surface, but can you imagine the health issue of checkers handling your bags after handling a hundred other bags during the day. It can't be healthy unless they sanitize them at the door when you carry them in :thumbs:

If they do it they should reorient check stands so that the customer bags their own - personal opinion!

 

I think the bag fee is a brilliant idea. It has worked marvelously in Ireland. Plastic bags hanging on trees and bushes and floating in lakes is a thing of the past.

Hey, I just went back and read the whole article and we got a mention .

There are no exceptions to the bag 'duty' here. Every shop must charge for them or face a fine. Clothing stores have returned to paper, but we still just take our own bags whenever we go shopping.

The difference in the environment has been nothing less that astounding.

 

I think shutting down the US government printing office would do more for the environment and for liberty!