Where’s Your Other Type of Bag?
The City of Santa Barbara’s Environmental Services Division ramps up their single-use bag reduction program with a promotion… Where’s Your Bag?
This week, surprise customers who walk into Albertson’s, Foodland, Lazy Acres, Ralph’s, Santa Cruz Markets, Scolari’s, Tri-County Produce, and/or Vons with a re-usable bag will win prizes.
According to the group, “plastic bags are causing huge problems in our oceans – animals like sea turtles die when they mistake them for food and the plastic breaks down into small bits that end up in the fish we eat. Plastic bags are also a large source of unintentional street litter. Paper bag production is extremely energy intensive – far more than plastic bags and the toxic chemicals used when making paper lead to water and air pollution. The average person uses over 500 paper and plastic bags per year and only a small percentage of each type of bag is recycled. Our goal is to dramatically reduce that number.”
November 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Anyone know who the girl at the end of the commercial shopping at the grocery store is? She’s incredibly cute!
November 16th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I like the idea but we are a pretty environmental city as is, do we really need to have city staff and public money spent on this? There are numerous groups around town who push the message let alone friends and neighbors why spend tax dollars?
The city cant meet budget and it seems like some of these jobs are self creating/sustaining busy work for something the nonprofit sector is doing anyways. We have deeper social ills to deal with, how about cut someone from that department and put that cash towards helping homeless or something equally as worthy.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Amen, brother or sister mypup.
November 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
A City employee standing in front of a closed Vons… Now there’s a picture for you.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Hooray for fewer goddam plastic bags in the world!
November 17th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I don’t know how much the City is actually spending on this but, I do know that plastic bags are a huge problem. It is just nuts how much crap we, as consumers, put into the environment. Throw away plastics are bad for the environment.
Here is one for the guys. I have tried to use those canvas bags that are in my trunk. But I usually forget about them until I am in the checkout line. (old times disease) What works for me are ‘Chico Bags’. Huge bags that hold up to 25 pounds and stash in the attached tiny bag. I can keep them on my cars console and stick them in my pocket. They work better for me than the canvas bags. Just a thought.