Boulder likely to impose 10-cent bag fee

[Mazin]

Wait, does that include SaddleBags

[rockhound]

i can see it now, the obama crowd will need to get their reusable bags provided to them cause they can't afford to buy their own and the new tax is a burden,

this will be one more thing that I can "just do a little more of"

I have four kids do you any idea how many grocery bags I and going to have to buy in order to get our average weeks groceries home in? I am going to have a storage crate full.........................

[Whistler]

Stupidity has no limits.

[JoeT]

there was a study last year on this....the reusable bags (I think they used the canvas bags like you'd get at whole foods) were tested to have unsafe level of bacteria, causing cross contamination from your old groceries to your new groceries

[Great-Kazoo]

This was proposed last election cycle as a state wide law, fortunately it didn't go anywhere.

[Tinelement]

What if you bring in your OWN plastic bags!?

Yeah know, just to stir the pot!!

[JohnTRourke]

Another reason not to go there..

yep
fuck boulder

well, since they don't have bags
make the employees help you out with everything.

that should get expensive fast, but free for the consumer.
hehehehehehehehe

[merl]

luckily Boulder City, not county.

[Danimal]

I have read multiple articles about how reusable bags propagate bacterial growth and how they take something like 50 times the material and several hundred times the energy to make them. So as long as you get a couple years or bacteria laden use out of them they are worth it. Otherwise the only problem that we solved was the bags in the landfill problem, and I thought that was solved by separate bag recycling stations like they have around Boulder.

This kinda reminds me of two years ago when Boulder voted to raise a 7% tax against Xcel energy for the development of clean energy. We did not even make it through December of that year before Xcel announced a 9% raise in electricity costs. Boy you sure got them polluting bastards good, city of Boulder.

[DSull]

Bacteria can live in those cloth bags and there is a case on record where a woman almost died from the infection she was exposed to by using the cloth bags. Good Luck!