Article: EDITORIAL: Bay Area bags not viable in Los Angeles

Staff Editorial
University Wire
04-11-2007
(Daily Forty-Niner) (U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The obnoxiously pervasive plastic shopping bags that can be seen floating in the air during a windy day may soon go by the wayside as Los Angeles city officials are now considering a ban on the bags. In their place would be "compostable" bags, which are biodegradable and significantly less harmful to the environment.

Following in the footsteps of San Francisco's ban on the biologically harmful bags, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider the measure banning the bags yesterday, according to an article in the April 10 issue of the Los Angeles Times.

The proposed ...

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