Plastic Bags Banned in Toronto

[quote author=VillageBelle link=topic=67111.msg421505#msg421505 date=1339075542]
as much as plastic bags are a nice convenience and i use them as little as possible.......we now do all our shopping with fabric reuseable bags which i put in the laundry every couple of weeks,.....but i do use plastics for garbage.

they are choking our earth to death  ad:

look at guyana.....plastic and styrofoam has been major culprits in the recent floodings.

would it be so bad to move to paperbags?
i know.....more expensive

but i really like the ones you get at some of the stores.....like La Senza and shoppers cosmetic counter.
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the fact is we should have a choice if we want plastic bags or not.

take away the choice and soon enough they will be dictating as to how many children you can have.

and btw....the whole environment thing - is a hoax. its just another way for the govnt to make money.

the council must have decided that if there not going to reap any of the 5cents, they will scrap the bags entirely.

also garbage is put in plastic bags - it doenst eliminate problem. your not going to save the ozone layer by getting rid of plastic bags.  maybe if city council concentrated on improving the transit system so that ppl didnt have to depend on their vehicles - that would make a bigger difference than the plastic bags.

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=67111.msg421509#msg421509 date=1339075767]
La Senza is well known for their nice shopping bags  :blank:
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those will break if you put grocery in them.

The split crotch ones dont Break ! 

the city council should be more concerned as to why a person on house arrest ended up till in Eaton Centre to kill some guy and injuring others in the process?

Toronto city council has voted to ban plastic bags outright by 2013.
Council had spent Wednesday at city hall debating whether to eliminate a mandatory five-cent bag fee that Mayor Rob Ford had wanted axed.
A majority of councillors decided to kill the bag fee by July 1 of this year, but Willowdale Coun. David Shiner also made a motion to eliminate plastic bags altogether by Jan. 1. His motion passed 24-20.
"It's better than just trying to get rid of the fee; it's getting rid of the bags," Shiner said. Top news

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Shiner said he wasn't planning on moving a motion to ban plastic bags until he saw it might pass. "It's the most progressive move that this council's ever had," he said, adding that retailers should provide paper bags free of charge.
The mayor portrayed the outright ban as a victory. "We got rid of the bag tax; it's what people wanted," he said.
Ford and some councillors had argued that the $5 million retailers earned annually from the fee wasn't going to any particular environmental group and had served its purpose, cutting plastic-bag consumption in half.
The mayor believes the ban will face legal hurdles.
"I don't think it will be upheld in court," he said. "A judge will just say, 'You can't tell these people they can't give out plastic bags or sell plastic bags.' To me it's ludicrous."
Los Angeles and Seattle are among the other North American cities that have taken similar approaches. Shiner said he got the idea from Seattle's recent ban. Related Videos

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=67111.msg421527#msg421527 date=1339076720]
The split crotch ones dont Break ! 
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SMH
sometimes i wonder if you are 15 or 50!! ::redcard::

hahahaha....thats already been ' bagged ' and tossed into the BFI bin ...  ::lol:: ::lol::

I wear Boxers to reflect my age ........... ::rofl::

dam

I tought they were banning the calypso monarch