Surely someone will call the five-cent fee on disposable bags a Bagocolypse, but I think it’s a great policy for the environment and against waste. And it starts January 1.
Intrepid local affairs and government blogger David Alpert has written today about the policy and where free reusable bags may be had.
More about this topic later. [...]
The forthcoming District of Columbia plastic and paper bag restriction specifically excludes bags for fruit and vegetable — perhaps out of concern that D.C. residents need no discouragement to eat their greens.
But in France we saw an alternative — paper. Strong attractive paper bags — squared off, with a picture of a cheery market scene [...]
Blast! I don’t recall the name of the new Indian place near the northwest corner of 19th and K St, N.W. here in Washington. It’s new-ish, and does have the word Spice in it. Being the BB&T bank, if you’re approaching from K Street.
For about $7.50, I got the rice-plus-two-curry special. Not greasy. Was [...]
I imagine a costs-savings over a plastics-savings, but the word from Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is that plastic SmarTrip vouchers were being replaced with paper ones, beginning last month.
We don’t get vouchers — among other things, I administer transit benefits for work; this information is behind a login — and WMATA will [...]
Good news. The D.C. Council has passed unanimously a bill that charges a five-cent fee for grocery-style shopping bads, plastic or paper, for the sake of the trash-filled Anacostia River. (Part of the collected fee will go to fund durable bags for low-income Washingtonians.)
Reportage from DCist and WashingtonPost.com.
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Thanks to the last comment from JMcK, I started reading her blog The Unplastic Life, and I hope to meet her when she’s back in D.C.
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I’ve been using reusable grocery bags for years, but not for any reason the hip or fashionable would recognize. First, I had no car for long periods in Georgia, and that meant long walk and bus waits to get groceries: overloaded plastic bags cut into your fingers. (I also used a backpack to shop.) Second, [...]
We can agree that plastic packing peanuts are best avoided, who actually seeks them out? Indeed, they seek us in the goods we order or gifts we receive.
We get many at work, and they’re not recyclable through the usual waste streams. But shipping companies will sometimes take them and reuse them.
The Plastic Loose Fill Council [...]
The heart of a proposed District of Columbia law — the Anacostia River Cleanup & Protection Act of 2009 — is a provision to restrict what bags D.C. retailers may use. Out go recyclable plastic and kraft paper bags. Recyclable bags are OK, but they must be labeled such and there’s a fee for their [...]
Twelve of the thirteen members of the District of Columbia Council have introduced the Anacostia River Cleanup and Protection Act which includes a five-cent fee on disposable grocery bags, plastic or paper.
Would be nice if it included other retailers — especially restaurants — but this probably gets the biggest number of bags off [...]
