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San Francisco: Paper or Plastic?
San Francisco may begin charging for grocery bags:
San Francisco may become the first city in the nation to charge shoppers for grocery bags.
The city’s Commission on the Environment is expected to ask the mayor and board of supervisors Tuesday to consider a 17-cent per bag charge on paper and plastic grocery bags. While the goal is reducing plastic bag pollution, paper was added so as not to discriminate.
Some satirical (I hope) analysis from Alan Kesselheim at TidePool.
Slay a tree or add to the wildlife-choking, landfill-glutting, oil-industry-fueling juggernaut? It’s a rock-and-hard-place ethical dilemma on a landscape littered with them.
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San Francisco officials are considering charging consumers 17 cents every time they check out with a shopping bag supplied by the store. While the rest of the country obsesses over who can go to bed together and whether a woman must bear an unwanted child, folks on the bay are coping with some real issues. Hit us in the pocketbook, they say.
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