Ms. Orozco’s collection of tote bags stems from a recent ordinance in Brownsville, one of Texas’ poorest big cities: a ban on plastic checkout bags in virtually all businesses. The policy, which took effect in January, has eliminated more than 350,000 bags per day, according to Mayor Pat Ahumada, who said in an e-mail that it has “transformed our city from littered and dirty to a much cleaner city.”
Two other Texas communities, Fort Stockton and South Padre Island, have also approved bans on plastic bags, which will take effect in September and January, respectively. Several large cities, including Laredo and El Paso, have previously considered bans, and even the small town of Poteet, south of San Antonio, plans to assess its bag-banning options
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We should just do it and get it overwith! Plenty of downtown shoppers already walk around with their own bags. I've been in cities with bag bans and found out at the cash register that if I didn't have my own bag, I would be charged a few cents - made me think twice about my own habits. But I am all for the ban of annoying plastic bags.
ReplyDeleteVery annoying OK, let's get an anti-plastic bag mascot and go to the next city coucil meeting and urge all the payasos de councilmen to bring it back up. They need a diversion from all the beer run talk anyway.
ReplyDeleteHe/she already exists & visits cities all over the world. http://www.chicobag.com/t-meet_bag_monster.aspx
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