What’s this, banning plastic bag stuff anyhow?
Our City Council must think that when we leave the stores we toss the plastic grocery bags to the four winds. I have found it more convenient to unpack the bags in my own kitchen and keep the bags for kitty litter duty, which are then dumped in to trash containers and collected by the green garbage machines operated by Waste Management.
These trucks take our trash to the Calabasas Landfill where plastic bags will decompose at a rate comparable to the rocks in the fill but not to matter, Landfills have all the time in the world. This fill services a waste shed extending from Newbury Park to Granada Hills to Brentwood and on to Malibu, which represents less than 5% of the service area. It’s difficult to understand how our council thinks our 5% contribution of bags in this landfill will somehow make it back over the Santa Monica Mountains to splash down in the ocean.
Since plastic grocery bags are banned from our shopping carts so must compactor and trash bags since it would make no sense to ban a few bags while permitting cartons of them. Since our garbage compactors will be inoperable, our garbage disposals will now have to work double duty filling our septic tanks. Good news for the pumping companies. As for paper bags, my weekly junk mail exceeds my monthly usage of paper bags as compared by weight and what is it about plastic produce bags that make them acceptable? It’s amazing how insensitive our City Council is to the needs of its citizens and merchants just to appease some environmentalists. Has our council forgotten that our beaches are trashed by millions of tourists every year. What are you going to do about that, council, ban them?
Jack Singleton