A plastic bag ban failed to pass the California Senate.
No surprise here, the plastic and chemistry lobbies won again, reports the Marin Independent Journal: ”The bill’s largest opposition came from the American Chemistry Council (representing plastic bag makers like Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil), which the AP reports “spent millions in lobbying fees, radio ads and even a prime-time television ad attacking the measure.” The same council helped defeat a bill last year in Seattle that would have tacked a 20-cent fee on the use of plastic or paper grocery bags.”
I believe it is only a matter of time until plastic bags are banned in California, and then the rest of the country will follow… They are such an awful problem…
Read the full article from the Marin IJ here.
