LA Bans Plastic Bags In City Council Vote, Ordinance Expected To Take Effect In 2014 (VIDEO)
Posted in: Today's ChiliLos Angeles is on the verge of becoming the largest city in the United States to ban plastic grocery bags.
The City Council approved the ordinance in an 11-1 vote on Tuesday. The ordinance, once signed into law by the mayor, would ban single-use plastic bags in any store that sells groceries and mandate that retailers charge 10 cents per paper bag if customers don’t bring their own reusable totes. Either outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa or Mayor-Elect Eric Garcetti, who takes office July 1, is expected to sign the ordinance.
The County of Los Angeles had already imposed a similar ban on plastic grocery bags in 2010, which affected the unincorporated parts of the county. The cities of Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Pasadena and Long Beach in Southern California also have a ban on the books. With Tuesday’s vote, one in four Californians are covered by some kind of plastic bag ban, notes environmental group Heal The Bay in a press release.
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