Mayor Rob Ford had an agenda item to ban the 5-cent plastic bag fee. Which council did.
However, they took it one, large step further.
Without study, without review, without a legal opinion or without it being on the agenda, the kooks decided to stick it to Rob Ford - and the rest of the city of Toronto - and voted to outright ban all single use plastic bags.
The original 5-cent bag fee was stupid enough. It was supposed to save the environment.
All I did was rather than line my garbage can with plastic grocery bags, I now had to buy bigger and thicker No Name garbage bags.
Net savings to the environment = Zero.
So how extensive will this new ban be? What about the plastic bags you put fruit and veggies in? What about the plastic bags bread comes in? What if you go to The Bay to buy socks and underwear? Council says to stuff those in your pockets. And I guess I'll just carry my Sub home in my hands.
I suspect CUPE will like this, though, as we now have to hire all sorts of union Bag Police to enforce this.
Luckily, I was able to jump into the future to see what this will look like next year.
See what your Extremely Green Future looks like. Good luck.......
2 comments:
Perhaps the the UC form the oil patch protests for a reason!!
Banning flimsy plastic bags has been dismissed as a drop in the ocean when it comes to dealing with the world's environment problems, but multiplied on a China scale, it appears to have made a big difference.
A new report suggests restrictions on bag usage in the world's most populous nation have saved the equivalent of 1.6 million tonnes of oil, in the year since it was introduced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/22/china-plastic-bags-ban-success
indfer 16
Lol - good one Anon. Between saving oil and reducing litter, I completely support the bag ban especially since it was one in the eye for old Rob Ford - now if we could only do the same for old Stephen Harper...
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