If you lived in a high rise, you would see notes posted over your garbage chute that all garbage must be disposed of in tied plastic bags to prevent a pest infestation and odours which are health hazards. So will City Counicl be retrofitting all high-rise buildings with a different method of garbage disposal?
I think not!


And what about enforcement of the ban? Toronto City Council is banning GLAD from selling bags too? How will they enforce this?
Hum…..Ford succeeds at outsourcing garbage pick-up, then the current union staff doing garbage pickup get reassigned to be enforcement officers to follow the garbage trucks and write citations for the residents?

Sounds like a lefty scheme to me!

Many people re-use plastic bags over and over for groceries etc. (I'm one of them). When they wear out I line my garbage container with them. Otherwise I almost never throw them out.

Having to wash the approved re-usable bags after each use, in order to avoid bacteria contamination, negates the environmental benefits. It will increase water consumption and puts more cleaning solutions into our lake.

I was around when paper bags were the only option...and I can tell you, it was a pain in the you-know-what. If you had soggy or wet produce the bag would rip and you would drop all your groceries.

Bring back the bag and at the same time we need to get the Province to bring back Weed Killer.

Jerry Agar

Was this proposal not raised by a Mayor’s supporter in council? Why are you omitting that minor detail !!!!

EM

Thank you Jerry for NAMING THOSE TORONTO COUNCILLORS who are so petty and self important that they voted to BAN PLASTIC BAGS, without even thinking about the ramifications, without proper legal consultation, without any public input on the matter of plastic bag use!! In one fell swoop, they also killed thousands of jobs in the GTA bag advertising & plastics industry. Let us all remember WHO these councillors were so that we can be sure to VOTE THEM OUT in the next municipal election in 2014.

In case you have forgotten who support the BAG BAN, here are the usual suspects:
Maria Augimeri, Ana Bailão, Michelle Berardinetti, Shelley Carroll, Raymond Cho, Josh Colle, Gary Crawford, Janet Davis, Glenn De Baeremaeker, Sarah Doucette, Paula Fletcher, Mary Fragedakis, Mike Layton, Pam McConnell, Mary-Margaret McMahon, Joe Mihevc, Peter Milczyn, Ron Moeser, Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, Jaye Robinson, David Shiner, Adam Vaughan, Kristyn Wong-Tam.

In my opinion, these 24 windbags on council have demonstrated how completely incompetent they are as no doubt this "decision" will have to be reversed to avoid lawsuits by GTA retailers and producers of these bags for consumers. If Miller had introduced the "bag fee" properly in the first place, directing the proceeds towards transit, or bike lanes, or the boreal canope, or some other environmental project, it would have been a productive move. But of course, he & most of the same leftists councillors who supported his agenda mindlessly bullied consumers, adding revenue to the bottom line of retailers instead.

When it became impossible to re-channel the MILLIONS back to Toronto's coffers, Mayor Ford moved to eliminate it altogether. It was only because of political interference from PERRUZZA, and then grand-standing by SHINER that the other whiners seized the opportunity to vote AGAINST the Mayor's mandate, as usual.

I predict, that this too will backfire on those clueless clowns on council, only to garner more support for the Mayor on behalf of the people, and then we can be rid of these gutless bags of hot air once and for all.