I shop at Trader Joes, Ralphs, Albertsons, Gelsons, Jons. For differing reasons. Sometimes I go around the corner to the 99 Ranch Market. If I buy 4 items, they will pack them in 4 separate plastic bags. If I buy 11 items at Trader Joes, it goes in one bag. Therefore, I was happy to see……….
From the Sacramento Business Journal:
“Grocery bag recycling act clears legislature
Sacramento Business Journal – 11:17 AM PDT Thursday
The California Legislature on Wednesday approved a bill that would require grocery stores in the state to set up plastic grocery bag recycling programs.
The bill, which passed the Assembly on a 62 – 2 vote, calls for a plastic grocery bag recycling bin inside all grocery stores, reusable grocery bags to be available for sale to customers, and by July 1, 2007, requires all plastic grocery bags to be labeled “please return to participating store for recycling.”
Assemblymember Lloyd Levine, a Van Nuys Democrat, sponsored the bill.
“Californians use over 19 billion plastic grocery bags each year, creating 147.038 tons of unnecessary waste in our landfills,” he said in a press release. “With Californians throwing away over 600 bags a second, they are creating enough waste to circle the planet over 250 times per year.”
Californians Against Waste estimates state retailers generate more than 150,000 tons of plastic bags each year, less than 3 percent of which are recycled.
The bill now goes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to be signed.”
Here in Van Nuys 