Are plastic bags banned where you live?

Mostly because no one wants 50 of those polyester(not biodegradeable) reusable bags. Also, the plastic sacks get reused here at my house. They are used for storage and as garbage bags for small trash cans.

We recycle them to the point of disintegration though

If so the FBI would take over my house

Yes, but I live in the Peoples' Republic of Hawaii.

YES

but they should be. people should be using reusable bags. And if they can't, then use paper bags. much better for the environment since they can be recycled and turned back into paper bags. plastic is tougher to break down and a lot of people just throw them out.

No they aren't, I really don't like the idea of banning them, but I do think people should be encouraged to use reusable bags. Paper and plastic both damage the environment...I should use my reusable bag more often :/

good thing to makes good compost bags and trash bags.

Better than cutting down trees for the paper. plastic is MUCH better all around.

But they will be by 2014. The City and County of Honolulu authorized the ban not too long ago.

But they have tired.

I wish we had the choice of using paper. Everyone uses plastic bags where I live.

Not yet but there is an effort to get them banned. We already ban use of paper bags. Without paper or plastic I guess we are supposed to walk around with a trunk full of net bags? My God Man each time the eco maniacs do something they create at least three more social and economic issues.

But I sure wish they would be banned! We have reusable bags, and I always take them in, but my husband forgets and I get really angry with him.

Plastic Bands are bagged . . . Because Heavy Metal is replacing Plastic.

Hey, Lerro, are you a Trole? . . . . Trowel? . . . Trowl? . . . Whatever ? ? ? ?

Thankfully no. You try going up two flights of steps to get to your dorm after a shopping trip. I need those bags, I hope they stay around forever.

How many rain forrests have to die for these green weenies in LA to feel good about themselves?
Why don't liberals ever consider the unintended consequences of their nifty ideas?

Help your friends stock up on plastic grocery bags, $25/thousand!

http://www.nashvillewraps.com...

but they are hinting at it

Some places charge you 2pence or 5 pence

No, they aren't banned where I live. I re-use some as trash can liners and return the rest to the store recycle bin.

I'm actually surprised they aren't. Everything else is banned here

Most places give plastic unless you ask for paper. Some places don't even have paper.
Wal-Mart and Kroger have recycling bins for them.

No they are not banned. I do wish they would go back to the paper bags that were 3x's more strong but I would never propose to ban plastic bags. An option either or would be welcomed.

This is outrageous. Paper bags are health food for cockroaches. Cockroaches have been brought home in paper bags. I'd rather have plastic. They're more useful afterward.

Interesting. I had not thought of that. Paper bags are a cockroaches delicacy. However with that said I do wish that people would not toss the plastic bags out. I notice a lot of those plastic bags around Walmarts.

There will always be trash as long as there's human trash.

It's all politics. Someone's going to make money off the bag ban and that's the bottom line. And God knows what you're taking home in your cloth bags.

Like plastic bottles. We have to return them to get deposits back. They why can't they make glass bottles instead? Plastic bottles were started because returning glass bottles was too inconvenient.

Apparently it's convenient again. You won't see glass bottles, though, because they can be weapons and Molotov cocktails. If you're a govt. intent on inciting race wars you wont' be allowing glass bottles.

Will mothers all over the world give up their Pampers for clothe? Manufacturers wouldn't like that.

You could analyze the pecuniary politics of plastic till polyethylene pops, banning plastic shopping bags is STUPID.

I agree with you. I think the government has too much power in making choices for We the People. I think we should have paper/plastic and cloth and allow the public to decide what works best for them. I personally use the plastic bags for garbage liners.

When did recycling became an issue? During the depression of the '30s my grandparents, that generation, were aces at recycling and they taught their children, my parents how to be frugal and how to do things ourselves. We were capable and confident. We could even fix our cars.

Laws and regulations and Big Brother have effed all of that up. Now you can't even change your own oil anymore. And it became a throw away culture with not a second thought.

Does govt want us that way so they can add restrictions and tighten the nooses. I think so.

If they ban them here I will buy plastic grocery bags and continue to explain my objection to cockroach lunch bags and disease ridden cloth ones.

Well at the end of the year they will be.

Not yet, but I'm hoping they soon will be.

No all the area but some of the local cities.... Spend a day in Puget Sound on a boat and you'll understand why.

Good comment, maybe you'd like to say this again and tell us more about the matter on my post I posted 5 days earlier than when this coypcat here did.

See my posting

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/a...

But I would support a ban if they ever put that to vote, as I have the reusable bags that I always use.

Not yet.

Unless the law changed in the last 2 days.

Not Yet

I hope they do soon,and it would be good to ban plastic bottles and return to the good old days of glass bottles.They are better for the environment. Maybe used recyclable paper for paper grocery bags and bring them back.There is so much wast with overpackaging.