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City Council to work on a solution for city’s plastic bag litter problem

By Jessica Savage
Posted February 21, 2012 at 8:36 p.m., updated February 21, 2012 at 8:41 p.m

CORPUS CHRISTI — Two plastic shopping bags caught in live oak trees outside City Hall on Tuesday set the backdrop for an hours-long discussion about the problem.

The bags became fodder for a rally held by the Coastal Bend Surfrider Foundation where about 50 residents gathered in support of a fee to discourage use of plastic bags. The conversation later continued inside City Hall where City Council members discussed the proposal and other ways to tackle the plastic bag litter problem, which costs the city about $190,000 a year in cleanup.

Council members agreed the city has a litter problem and needs to have tougher laws and enforcement but stopped short of giving consensus about a bag fee.  Mayor Joe Adame wants the community to work together on a solution within the next two to three months.

“The easy decision is to ban plastic bags,” he said. “We have got to figure out a unique way to change people’s behavior in the community.”

Some City Council members supported the idea of a plastic bag fee, while others said it’s not the government’s place to tell businesses what to do.  [read more ...]

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Austin may ban most plastic, paper bags

By Sarah Coppola

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

Published: 6:59 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011

The City of Austin might enact one of the broadest bag bans in the nation and prohibit disposable paper and plastic bags at all checkout counters starting in January 2016.

In the meantime, starting in 2013, retailers could continue to offer thin, so-called single-use bags, but customers would have to pay 25 cents apiece for them, according to a draft of the ban. That three-year period would give the public and retailers time to prepare for the ban, city officials say.

More than two dozen U.S. cities have enacted bag bans since 2007. Most prohibit plastic only, or ban plastic and impose a fee on paper. Austin would be one of only a few U.S. cities to ban both, said Bob Gedert , director of Austin Resource Recovery, the city department that wrote the draft ban and handles trash collection and recycling [... read more...]

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