This is a no brainer. If we don't start taking care of the environment, the environment will be unable to continue taking care of us. We continually forget that our very lives depend on respecting and protecting the air and water that we need to live. That includes trees. The amount of energy and resources used to cut and process trees into paper is enormous. We need to take responsibility for our lives and change our ways of doing things.
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John Bianchi
7 years ago
Ban these bags! This isn't difficult people - just a little bit of effort with far-ranging, positive effects.
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Edna Litten
7 years ago
When people can get free paper bags instead of plastic bags, large n7mbers of paper bags are used. A five cent fee for paper bags greatly reduces the number of people taking them. We need to reduce the use of all single use bags.
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Anne Maureen Conway
7 years ago
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Almost everyone who I know has at least one reusable bag but forget to bring them into the store. By imposing a fee on paper bags customers will be motivated to bring in their renewable bags. Change is difficult but we can be retrained to change our habits.
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Carol Waterman
7 years ago
This will help make Albany County greener.
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Maxine Bogash
7 years ago
Let's save Mother Earth 1 less
plastic bag at a time!
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Judith Johnson
7 years ago
Look at the resources used in creating paper bags. We need to look at the ramifications of what we do.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Do it.
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Susan F Weber
7 years ago
The 5 cent fee will incentivize the use of totes. Doesn't everyone have many reuseable totes? Perhaps we can promote a "pass your extra reusable totes along" program. I have like 10!!!
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Susan Weber
7 years ago
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The 5 cent fee will incentivize the use of totes. Doesn't everyone have many reuseable totes? Perhaps we can promote a "pass your extra reusable totes along" program. I have like 10!!!
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carol tansey
7 years ago
Let's complete the task of giving people the opportunity to procure re-usable bags.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
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We know from experience that plastic ban + fee is much more effective. Let's not trade plastic waste for paper. State law protects those on fixed incomes, so let's finish the job on this and move on to other pressing problems!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
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Cloth bags are so easy to use. Paper is not necessary for most needs and a 5 cent charge will discourage its use - though I suspect that few will really notice that addition to their shopping bill.
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Malcolm D Bliss
7 years ago
In addition to being good for the environment, re-usable bags are attractive and promote community initiatives.
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Mark Pezzati
7 years ago
Need to make this happen!
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Marey Bailey
7 years ago
We really need to do this. You have done us the service of banning styrofoam, please do this!
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Grace Nichols
7 years ago
Harkening beautiful changes in consumer behavior.
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Tina Lieberman
7 years ago
There is abundant evidence that a fee on paper bags must accompany a plastic bag ban if we are to impact consumer behavior to reduce and reuse.
This is a no brainer. If we don't start taking care of the environment, the environment will be unable to continue taking care of us. We continually forget that our very lives depend on respecting and protecting the air and water that we need to live. That includes trees. The amount of energy and resources used to cut and process trees into paper is enormous. We need to take responsibility for our lives and change our ways of doing things.
Ban these bags! This isn't difficult people - just a little bit of effort with far-ranging, positive effects.
When people can get free paper bags instead of plastic bags, large n7mbers of paper bags are used. A five cent fee for paper bags greatly reduces the number of people taking them. We need to reduce the use of all single use bags.
Almost everyone who I know has at least one reusable bag but forget to bring them into the store. By imposing a fee on paper bags customers will be motivated to bring in their renewable bags. Change is difficult but we can be retrained to change our habits.
This will help make Albany County greener.
Let's save Mother Earth 1 less plastic bag at a time!
Look at the resources used in creating paper bags. We need to look at the ramifications of what we do.
Do it.
The 5 cent fee will incentivize the use of totes. Doesn't everyone have many reuseable totes? Perhaps we can promote a "pass your extra reusable totes along" program. I have like 10!!!
The 5 cent fee will incentivize the use of totes. Doesn't everyone have many reuseable totes? Perhaps we can promote a "pass your extra reusable totes along" program. I have like 10!!!
Let's complete the task of giving people the opportunity to procure re-usable bags.
We know from experience that plastic ban + fee is much more effective. Let's not trade plastic waste for paper. State law protects those on fixed incomes, so let's finish the job on this and move on to other pressing problems!
Cloth bags are so easy to use. Paper is not necessary for most needs and a 5 cent charge will discourage its use - though I suspect that few will really notice that addition to their shopping bill.
In addition to being good for the environment, re-usable bags are attractive and promote community initiatives.
Need to make this happen!
We really need to do this. You have done us the service of banning styrofoam, please do this!
Harkening beautiful changes in consumer behavior.
There is abundant evidence that a fee on paper bags must accompany a plastic bag ban if we are to impact consumer behavior to reduce and reuse.
Let's get this done Albany!
We can do this!