Davon Johnson bags groceries at a Giant supermarket in Washington on Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. The store has both plastic and paper bags available, and also sells reusable bags in the store. Faced with a growing push in some states and cities to ban or limit use of the plastic bag, often depicted as a poster child for litter, many grocers are urging consumers to bring their own bags or to reuse or recycle the plastic ones. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Letter of the Day: Banning bags

Banning bags

EDITOR: I wholeheartedly endorse the "feel-good" plastic bag ban ordinances because they not only make me feel good, they are good.

Single-use plastic bags become nothing but litter. Our family already shuns them. This isn't difficult to do. We carry reusable cloth bags with us all the time, and we are usually given a discount by stores, including local stores and even the big boxes, for using them. Hardly a big "money grab" by businesses.

I don't know where Mark Daniels ("Bags and tax scams," Letters, Saturday) gets his figures on termination of employees because of a plastic bag ban. Seriously? I would think there would be bigger financial issues for any business if this micro-margin of income adversely affected their ability to pay their employees. I cannot imagine spending dollars in gas driving to another community to shop to save 10 or 20 cents on the cost of a paper bag.

This is not the massive economic crisis that Daniels would like it to be. It clearly panics the plastic bag industry that a massive state such as California can implement this very correct action, one city at a time. I can hardly wait for a Styrofoam ban.

CHRISTINE DOTTI

Rohnert Park

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