Congratulations, Encinitas!
1 comment so farEncinitas, California — official headquarters of your trusty reusable bag blog — has just become the first city in San Diego County to enact a ban on disposable plastic shopping bags.
Council members voted to approve the ban Wednesday night. The ban will be phased in over time, and supporters are happy to set the trend for other cities in the county.
Council members are expected to meet again to decide when the ban will take effect.
Following a not-long-enough line of trendsetters like San Francisco, and Manhattan Beach, and Malibu, Encinitas can now perhaps usher the rest of Southern-most California into a new golden age relatively free of plastics. As expected, the California Restaurant Association is kicking up a fuss that the ban violates health codes somehow, but these claims are questionable at best, as well as an argument for another time — when they meet to decide when the ban will take effect, one supposes.
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