Judge upholds San Francisco's plastic bag law (pdf)(sfcityattorney.org)
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Judge upholds San Francisco's plastic bag law (pdf)
http://www.sfcityattorney.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=1058
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Thats because the 2007 law only applied to large stores (ie, Safeway, Walgreens). Smaller stores were exempt.
Did you read the linked PDF? SF probably did exactly what you suggested; they banned non-compostable plastic bags.
That's not working too well. :(
All the bags in the city are still plain old plastic.
All the bags in the city are still plain old plastic.
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.
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.