So, if the local recycling center doesn’t take plastic bags (and most don’t), does this mean that “manner consistent” means the stores can just dump them in the trash?

Some branches of larger stores (e.g., Safeway) already collect bags for recycling. However, given the transportation costs, it appears to be more for public relations purposes than, say, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

We need to smack ourselves upside our collective foreheads for letting the commies con us into such idiocy. Will we never learn?

First, I will have to buy a set of re-usable bags that will then need to be washed every few weeks. Or I can pay twenty cents per paper bag (what the city council wants to tax us for paper bags when they outlaw plastic bags). Assuming the later, that would be at least a dollar a week.

Next, I will need to buy plastic bags for what I use the free grocery bags for.

I estimate that all this would cost me at least $75 to $100 per year.

Katy

I have but one quibble, Ms Grimes. While it is true that bag-fee laws are being dreamed up by busybody city councils everywhere, with the effect of literally nickle-and-diming us at the checkout, the “cost to business” will eventually be borne by consumers as well. Someone’s gotta pay for that Hydrocarbon Product Recycling Coordinator Level II.

Essentially we can look forward to paying for bags both directly AND indirectly!

If we are lucky, cooler heads and legislative laziness will prevail. (Remember the dire predictions in the mid 1990s which suggested that by 2010 the planet would be covered in a sea of discarded compact disk packaging? Somehow we averted that crisis.)

Do you want the world to know “everything” you do, where you visit in a public domain data base?