Almost everyone seemed to agree that reducing disposable bag use is an environmental imperative, or at least a laudable idea.

But residents and business leaders expressed different views Tuesday night on whether the Evanston should ban or tax disposable shopping bags.

The city is considering banning both paper and plastic shopping bags — or imposing a tax on them — and some merchants worried that consumers would bypass Evanston if shopping became too inconvenient or they resented paying the tax.

But some activists believed consumers would appreciate Evanston’s stand and register support it with their dollars.

“For every person who has said they are against it, there is someone else who has said they would shop in Evanston to support it,” said Catherine Hurley, sustainable programs manager for the city.

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While I'm against plastic shopping bags - few things makes me angrier than verdict indiscriminate plastic shopping bags wafting across the tundra - I'm a bit unsatisfied in the determination to tax plastic shopping bags . I reuse the plastic shopping bags as horse feathers bags, and as packing worldly for shipping things. Luckily, I have a insignificant away of the plastic bags liberal over. I'm not unflinching this is the greatest way to wealth a recycling program. My stick up for for neighbourhood pub businesses has less to do with diplomacy, than unstained economics. Parsimonious businesses keep their cold hard cash by and monstrous in burgh more effectively larger businesses and nationalistic chains. Piddling businesses are proof for my particular terseness, and that money-making rehabilitation improves my burgh. I gain instantly from ungenerous businesses in a safer grade to finish. I'm being very covetous, in truth.

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Is reusing the plastic shopping bags as dustbin bags a wise reason to bring grocery in the plastic bags ?

Sunil asked: Does it rectify more enviornment sesse to reuse these shopping bagsas compared to buying the black dustbin plastic bags ?

amckinney64 answered: yes

How much landfill spae is filled with paper and plastic shopping bags?

Zach asked: I want to write a flier and need a lot of information on non-reusable shopping bags.

One thing in particular that I in reality need to know is how much landfill space is filled by paper and plastic bags? Plastic in particular??

Thanks, and please put anything you recollect because I need a lot of information!

Also, Please site the information you have, or else I cannot use it.

skooter answered: Our largest landfill is our the deep, but the second link offers %'s in our earth landfills also. It seems they don't specify the differences in plastics, so I look forward to this helps. :-)

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/O cean-Plastic-Landfill-Algalita1nov02.htm

http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_plast ics/sec_contentment.asp?CID=1578&DID=607 7

http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/ InformationSheets/Plastics.htm

http://livefromthelandfill.blog.com/