The LA County Board of Supervisors caved in to pressure from the California Grocer's Assn. and voted against banning plastic bags from county retail stores; instead they took the easy way out and voted for a voluntary effort by retailers to urge shoppers to reuse shopping bags.
Last year after the City of San Francisco instituted a ban, the LA supervisors commissioned a study that lasted nine months. The study's authors proposed the strongest measure: outright ban, but the supervisors opted for the weakest of the five alternatives. LA County uses 6 billion bags/year.
However, Whole Foods will institute a company-wide, 270 store ban on plastic bags before Earth Day 2008 (April 22). Whole Foods distributes 150 million plastic bags/year currently. They are the first US grocery chain to institute a ban. There are 26 Southern Cal and 24 Northern Cal Whole Foods markets.
(classic Bacsik)
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