Oakland Plastic Bag Ban - Media Alert
January 25, 2008 by Christopher
Nomad Cafe was active in supporting the passage of the plastic bag ban ordinance in Oakland, which was scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2008. It has been put on hold pending a court hearing over a lawsuit against the ordinance by the plastic bag industry. The court hearing is on Tuesday, January 29. Please come out and join Council members Nadel, Quan, the Director of the Lake Merritt Institute, and recycling and zero waste specialists on Monday, January 28 at 10am for a press conference on the steps of Oakland City Hall, affirming the City of Oakland’s commitment to the reduction of pollution, oil dependence, blight and global warming through the implementation of this ban, among many other efforts.
Oakland Plastic Bag Ban - Media Alert
Those who would make this a debate over “paper vs. plastic” are tacitly validating both, along with all the resource consumption and waste that accompanies them. If you want to make a difference, don’t use either one! Go with reusable bags. In the meantime, the plastic bag ban is a crucial beginning.
The litigants’ demand for an Environmental Impact Report on this ordinance is just a costly delay tactic and an attempt to create another opportunity to establish plausible deniability. Don’t let them get away with it! Come out Monday to City Hall to support this ban.
So I take it you don’t like single-use bags? Nobody seems to want us around anymore… It’s hard being a Bag Monster in the Age of Bag Bans! I can’t even get a job because of convenient reusable ChicoBags.
For a good laugh (at my expense), and the latest info on Bag Bans with an entertaining twist, go to my blog: http://www.BagMonster.com
It’s easy to adopt a healthy reusable bag habit and eliminate Bag Monsters! There’s a blog for people who want to be entertained and informed about the bag crisis: http://www.BagMonsterBusters.com Join the movement to adopt a healthy reusable bag habit: Become a Bag Monster Buster. Single-use bags are the poster child of wastefulness and they are creating Bag Monsters! You might have one under your kitchen sink… you know… the bag of bags you never get around to recycling? Yeah. Those ones. They’re coming to life and exacting revenge over what they deem “discriminatory bag bans.” See what I mean at http://www.BagMonster.com. Stay strong, and always roll with a reusable bag!