By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
One wonders who the man is to the left and why is he channelling SNL’s, Beldar Conehead. Seems John Walsh appeared before the Los Angeles City Council to oppose the use of plastic bags at grocery stores. According to proponents of the bag ban, the flimsy and wind friendly containers have the habit of blowing into tree limbs, sinking into lakes, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Walsh spoke in support of a measure to ban the bags and allow supermarkets to charge up to 10 cents for the paper variety.
Walsh is a well-known gadfly in LA, and this is just one of his causes. The blogger writes scores of posts each day on happenings in Hollywood and has even taken to the public airways to castigate those whom he sees as affronts to the community. Here’s one of his recent posts calling for an “eating strike”:
“LA TEACHERS ARE PREPARING TO HANG UTLA PRESIDENT A.J. DUFFY IN EFFIGY IN FRONT OF UNION HQ. WHEN SCHOOL STARTS. SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS CREATED AN ANATOMICALLY CORRECT EFFIGY OF PRESIDENT DUFFY BUT NOBODY COULD LIFT IT. IN HONOR OF DUFFY, THE 7,000 TEACHERS WHO HAVE HAD THEIR SENIORITY STOLEN AND LOST THIER OPPORTUNITY TO WORK AS THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTS, WILL STAGE A FIRST EVER BINGE EATING STRIKE. THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF A HUNGER STRIKE. SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS WILL PROTEST DUFFY BY GATHERING IN FRONT OF UTLA HQ AND BINGE EATING DAY AFTER DAY UNTIL THEY ARE AS MORBIDLY OBESE AS OUR PRESIDENT STUFFY DUFFY. FOR DETAILS REGARDING TIME AND DATE OF THIS DEMONSTRATION; (323) 469-4178.”
The guy is a hoot and effective, too. The LA City Council passed the plastic bag ban by a vote of 13-1.
Ah, participatory democracy with a flair!
Source: Huffington Post
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
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I believe Oregon was the first state to implement the charge on plastic bottles. In California, it is now 10 cents per plastic bottle and 5 cents per aluminum can. It can add up quite quickly over a period of time.
Wasn’t California one of the first states to require bottle deposits?
Plastic bags were eliminated at stores in the city where I reside last summer and paper bags can be purchased for 10 cents per should you not bring your own for the transfer of groceries. When I was shopping just yesterday, customers now have the option to buy plastic bags at 10 cents per.
I don’t understand why here in the States plastic bags are a huge thing. Most advanced countries in the world have grocery stores which do offer large sturdy plastic bags that you must pay a nominal fee for, encouraging re-use of use of your own bags. My fellow Americans cannot seem to grasp the idea that re-using things (like bringing your own cloth bags, and yes you can wash them after use) is just a good thing to do. At least some think that those kind of concepts are somehow limiting their freedom. Very odd indeed.
we need to go back to glass containers for food items. the reusable grocery totes are a good idea, better than plastic and no bugs like with paper bags.
as far as the six pack rings i just gave up on the six packs but i did either cut them up or show everyone (haha) what a badass i was by folding and breaking it.
pete,
Whether the illegals are using plastic is the real question.??
While Beldar Walsh went to the extreme to suggest a ban on plastic bags, his thought is still a good one. We do need to wean ourselves off of the plastic bags and those 6 pack connectors.
It is not a trivial concern.
These plastics make it into the garbage gyres of the world oceans, the plastic continents.
There are five major gyre-based continents, at the moment.
One of them, The Great Norther Gyre is twice the size of Texas, and is where the LA plastic tends to end up.
To add insult to injury, these plastic continents have begun to be places where certain species are beginning to unnaturally increase, to the detriment of the ocean ecosystem.