New Yorkers rankled on first day
of statewide plastic-bag ban
by
Kevin Sheehan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
3/1/2020 3:09:43 PM
Here’s where you can stuff your plastic-bag ban. New Yorkers were forced to begin grappling with a new shopping reality Sunday as the state’s ban on plastic shopping bags kicked in—and not many people were happy about it. “I think it’s ridiculous,” letter-carrier Scott Kimmel, 56, said while shopping at the Whitestone Target in College Point, Queens.(Snip) About half the shoppers seen by The Post on the first day of the bag ban, including Kimmel, were compensating by bringing their own bags from home, while another quarter opted to just go bagless rather than pay the 5-cent paper-bag fee
Reply 1 - Posted by:
pros7767 3/1/2020 3:25:03 PM (No. 333764)
As my husband says repeatedly, if they really "care" about the environment, the bags are the least of the problem! Why don't they they care about the plastic water and soda bottles? I guess relatives of the politicians must own stock in those companies!
Both of us happily living in SC where there are plenty of plastic bags and straws and a non-intrusive government!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/1/2020 3:28:54 PM (No. 333767)
When California pulled this stunt, those who hadn’t been saving bags (we still have cartons full) found these at Smart & Final. $21.00 for 1000 and free delivery (same day). Worth it. We will not be overcome by the lib bureaucrats…
https://www.instacart.com/store/items/item_53514840
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sw penn 3/1/2020 3:30:32 PM (No. 333769)
Carry your own plastic bags.
It's a First Amendment protected expression.
They made it "political speech" when they banned them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/1/2020 4:18:59 PM (No. 333795)
Noo Yawk: ''SEE!!! WE can be just as stupid as California!''
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/1/2020 4:33:40 PM (No. 333804)
Re-elect NO ONE. Did your idiot mayor champion closing Rikers Island and giving 4 boroughs their own new jail? Did your congressman waste his term playing impeachment? Did your assembly man vote for this bag ban and “bail reform”? Did your governor ban fracking plastic bans and agree with NYC mayor on a sanctuary state? Did your senator cry about witnesses against the president? Re elect none of them.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2020 4:34:04 PM (No. 333806)
Probably make it illegal to carry a concealed plastic bag next. Or maybe "high capacity" plastic bags, that will carry any more than two cans of soup.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 3/1/2020 4:49:38 PM (No. 333816)
Having gone through this symbolic and utterly pointless transition from plastic to recycled bags in California I can sympathize with the New Yorker's that find this stupid. What you find is, like every boiled frog, you eventually just get used to it and adapt.
We now carry a bunch of the recycle bags in the car and have learned to bring them into the store to give to the baggers. Actually, more and more stores like Aldi just have you bag your own groceries or leave them in the cart to take them to the car. Most of the stores here also give you a credit on your groceries for bringing your own bags.
Its not that you can't live without the convenience of plastic bags, its just that you no longer have the freedom to decide this for yourself and have to bend to the all powerful government. It not very American.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
AltaD 3/1/2020 5:08:18 PM (No. 333826)
Rahm instituted a .07 bag tax in Chicago a couple years ago. I often see people leaving the grocery store, Walgreens and even Kohl's carrying their purchases without a bag. It makes me smile every time I see it. Paying a few cents per bag won't break anyone but I love that so many of us avoid paying it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/1/2020 5:31:51 PM (No. 333841)
It is not really a ban on plastic bags. It is a ban on free plastic bags. They will make millions on them. But just buy about 6-8 of them and keep them in your car and you are good to go.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Faithfully 3/1/2020 5:36:28 PM (No. 333845)
This has been the norm here for two decades. It is nothing more than a money grab as shoppers just purchase bags at 5 cents each. Nothing environmental at all. Wake up.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 3/1/2020 5:41:26 PM (No. 333847)
This is my pet peeve. We've been dealing with this nonsense for a couple of years now. New Yorkers are getting off easy, Californians pay 10 cents per bag. I refuse to pay for something that the stores used to provide for free because we were advertising as we went about town doing our other business. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay to be an ad shill for Safeway. Also note, the new bags are bigger and made from a heavier weight plastic than the old ones. What is the decomposition time for these bags?
We take a cardboard box with us and just have them put everything loose back in the cart, roll out to the car and put our items in the box. The box does fit the market cart and sometimes I just put the box in the cart and have the checkers reload the box. I have a repertoire of pronouncements I make to TK as we wait in line.
"Wow! The Democrats in Sacramento are so progressive we now have to bring boxes just like the pioneers did when they went to the general store."
"I guess paying 10 cents for a bigger and heavier bag somehow makes the environment better than the small thin bags that were free."
"What next? Will we have to butcher our own steaks?"
The above comments are not copyrighted and free for other Ldotters feeling the urge to make public commentary on the stupidity of progressive communists and their policies.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
XCenturion 3/1/2020 6:27:13 PM (No. 333867)
Keep voting for liberal Democrats morons and this what you'll keep getting.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/1/2020 7:00:27 PM (No. 333897)
Individuals can't get the bag law rescinded as effectively as the store owners and the chains. Demand they stuff everything in few bags and drop something messy on the floor. Then demand a replacement. If it happened every half hour in every store, it may get results.
Another cleanup near checkout #4!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
smcchk 3/1/2020 7:41:00 PM (No. 333919)
I was going to say that, #13. I throw away so much plastic after I unpack my produce. And plastic bags are the problem!? Another pet peeve is that the younger generation can’t seem to use a bar of soap. It is all body wash and hand soap packed in plastic bottles. What is that all about?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MeiDei 3/1/2020 9:12:57 PM (No. 333994)
So far so good here in MA. it was suggested recently but went nowhere (yet). I use mine to line the 4 small wastebaskets: 2 in the bath & in 2 bedrooms - I buy the multi-gallon size for both kitchens. It makes no sense to ban these bags - they've replaced the thicker ones we used to buy. Fruits and/or veggies prepacked have a tendency to ripen too quickly - why don't they ban those ; )
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2020 11:52:56 PM (No. 334064)
One of the free things out here in Free America is free plastic bags.
And we can own any guns we want, as many as we want, and ZERO state involvement in any way in Kansas, including for your FREE " concealed carry license" which is the 2nd Amendment.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
judy 3/2/2020 12:38:56 AM (No. 334073)
A few years ago they replaced paper bags with plastic bags to save the trees.... now???? I use my plastic bags to place anything that has an odor & take it out daily. My trash can is for paper only.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SALady 3/2/2020 2:11:33 AM (No. 334106)
Austin, TX, tried this idiocy. It was a huge pain. I know we stopped at Wal-Mart any time we were on the road, and stocked up on a bunch of the plastic bags so that we would have them for garbage, cleaning out the litter box, and all the other things we used them for. You could go 10 miles in pretty much any direction, and the stores outside of Austin would sack your groceries in all the plastic bags you wanted.
Fortunately, the Texas Supreme Court rules this bag ban insanity to be unconstitutional, and now most stores carry the plastic bags again.
But, hey, at least we got a taste of what life would be like under dictator-wanna-be Bernie Sanders and the ruling Demon-Rat Politburo if by some freak of nature he ever did get elected president!!!!
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New Yorkers LOVE electing politicians who use any excuse to add taxes and fees, seeing how NYC and the state are impossibly reckless fiscally. A nice touch: Welfare-Americans are exempt from this law, so self-funding NYers cough up a nickel per bag while watching others get their bags for free, all in the name of Social Justice.