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We asked for your views on the proposed ban of plastic shopping bags.
Could we please focus on the more important issue, to wit, our neighbor to the south, which pours its sewage and trash into the ocean?!?! - Brian, Solana Beach
I think the city should begin accepting plastic bags in the municipal recycling program. I can bring them for recycling to my local grocery store, but I can't put them in my blue bin. Yet I can recycle all sorts of other plastics. Seems like a missing piece. - Jenny, Pacific Beach
Recycling is better than banning the bags. The solution is to make Waste Management take them as plastic recyclables. This is what happens in Orange County, but not here. - William, Carlsbad
Hooray!! More of the nanny state coming to a city near you!!. - Andrew, Imperial Beach
I think it's a great idea and should be supported. In Europe everyone brings in their own cotton bags to grocery stores to support the environment...so should we. - Julian, Vista
I find it absolutely ridiculous that they would tax for small things such as plastic bags. All the tax would do is bring more revenue at the expense of shoppers. I wouldn't be surprised if they were to tax us on items with plastic containers, things like Dish Soap. - D., Oceanside
If the stores are going to start charging a fee for plastic or paper bags does this mean that there is going to be a CRV on plastic bags just like there is for plastic bottles? Just because a fee is charged doesn't mean that it is going to make a difference. Look at the statistics involved with plastic bottles and aluminum cans going to landfills. If the people of San Diego don't care about that, what makes anyone think that a fee for plastic bags will make a difference? It is a choice that everyone needs to make to help the environment. A fee for plastic bag! s won't change people's minds unless the people want their minds changed. - Anonymous, Normal Heights
I re-use every plastic bag that I bring my groceries home in. A ban would cause an increase in my budget because I would then have to purchase bags for the uses I put the grocery bags to. I don't think it would cause less waste at the landfill because people that re-use them will do as I would do, buy bags to replace them. - Kim, Encinitas
i think they sould not take alway plastic bags from the stores because they are very helpful for carryn grocery. - Carlos, Chula Vista
i think if you eleminate the plastic bag it will save people money and not only that less trash in our state. i think if everyone switch to material bags we can save money help the economy and not only help our planet out. i think also children have less trash of accidently killing themselfs by putting a plastic bag over there head when mommy steps away and less accidentle deaths. - Larry, El Cajon
While I understand the necessity and our duty to recycle and protect our environment for the future, I believe this proposal is too drastic. People should be able to have a choice and too many of our choices are being taken away. And the idea of being charged is over the top. Gas prices rising out of control, being charged for bags on airline flights and now this. If we live out of scarcity, it will continue to be perpetuated. - Nancy, University City
Year ago enviornmentalists complained about paper bag usage at grocery stores and they favored the use of plastic bags. Now that plastic bags have been used, these same groups want a ban on plastic bags favoring shoppers supplying their own cloth type bags. In a few years these same groups will complain that cotton in short supply and they will demand another change. These enviornemntalist will never be happy and they need to get a job instead of complaining about everything. - Tim, North County
If plastic bags are eliminated, I will just be forced to BUY commercial plastic bags to dispose of kitchen waste and trash. I'm always grateful that I can put those plastic grocery bags to a good use and save money, too. - Kat, San Diego
I think that doing anything to reduce waste is great. However I believe that more bags are recycled than they say. I reuse all my bags in the little trashcans in the house. What I don't use I take to my child's school for them to reuse as trash bags. If more companies (like fast food restaurants) package food in 100% recycled and recyclable materials and advertise this more, this would get more people to recycle and would be a greater impact on the environment as well as the economy. There is a lot more items recyclable than just bottles cans and paper. Almost every thing we buy ! that comes in a package, that package is recyclable - Adam, La Mesa
The plan to eliminate plastic bags, and even paper bags is ludicrous! What will the environmentalists think of next...to ban toilet paper. C'mon people, enough is enough! - Natalie
Ireland has the right idea. We use too many plastic bags unnecessary. It is easy to take reusable bags. I have been using them since 1992. Cashiers and consumers need to be more conscious of their bag consumption. It is not necessary to have a plastic bag for one item. If you can carry it to the cashier in your hand, why can't you carry it to your car and house without a bag? We just need to change our habits, there is too much bag pollution, I will be glad to see them go. My slogan is "Just say NO to plastic bags" - Carole, La Mesa
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