"It's hugely frustrating,'' Gold said. " A lot of us thought San Francisco was showing us the way to change. But these are well-funded industries and the stakes are high." Stephen Joseph, a lawyer for the Save the Replica Handbags , a plastics industry group, said bag manufacturers took action because they were fed up with exaggerations and "myths" about the environmental harm they caused. Plastic bags have been demonized by environmentalists, he said, but his group cited studies showing that paper was even more destructive to the environment. The studies, linked on the Save the Plastic Bag website, purportedly show that the process of manufacturing and distributing paper bags releases three times the greenhouse gases of plastic bags. Claims that the bags kill marine animals and form a "plastic soup" hundreds of miles off the Pacific Coast are exaggerated, Joseph said. "Prove to me that even one marine animal has died as a result of plastic bags,'' he said. "Why should we accept that there is a problem when nobody has proved it?" California courts have said the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition has a point. In a test case in Manhattan Beach, a state court judge overturned the city's 2008 ordinance banning plastic bags. The court said the city should have first done an environmental study to review the effect of replacing plastic bags with paper. The city lost an appeal, and the case is now headed to the state Supreme Court.

That lawsuit, and other legal challenges by the Save the Designer Replica Handbags , prompted some cities to delay enacting their own bans and wait for a high court ruling. Some municipalities intend to move ahead but are first preparing environmental studies to avoid being sued. Los Angeles, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Jose, Santa Monica, San Diego and several smaller municipalities have expressed interest in adopting their own measures, as have the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara. Karen Coca, division manager for Los Angeles' recycling program, said a master environmental study to be used by several cities proposing bag measures will be completed this summer. City leaders have already adopted a resolution stating they would ban plastic bags this year if the state Legislature doesn't slap a fee on them. The city probably would phase out plastic bags in tandem with a public education campaign to explain its goals, Coca said. Some people are very attached to their plastic bags, she said. "You have to be very cautious you're doing it right,'' she said. "Because once you get the ball rolling, you can't stop it." Much of the debate revolves around how governments can phase out plastic bags without triggering other problems. Supermarket chains, for instance, don't want to be stuck with a patchwork of different regulations. Grocers also think customers will simply switch to more costly paper bags if the plastic version becomes unavailable. That's what happened in San Francisco, said Dave Heylen of the California Grocers Assn. Paper bags cost about 5 cents apiece, compared with 1.5 cents per plastic bag, Heylen said.

Coca said she understands their argument. "The idea is to get away from all single-use bags, not just plastics. If you look at studies, over a lifetime a reusable louis vuitton replicas is much less polluting." Flip-flops were encouraged at Heal the Bay's 25-year celebration, "Bring Back the Beach," staged under the stars May 20 at the Jonathan Beach Club in Santa Monica. In keeping with the organization's eco-friendly principles, chandeliers were made from the bottoms of plastic bottles and flowers fashioned from recycled plastic bags topped centerpieces. "This is where we belong," said Luann Laval Williams, adding that she was glad to have good weather for the elegant beach gala. Williams received an award that night, along with Jack Baylis and the Walt Disney Co. for their environmental leadership and dedication. On ascending the podium, Julia Louis-Dreyfus greeted the crowd of nearly 900 people, encouraging them to support legislation to reduce beach litter caused by one-time-use plastic bags. Heal the Bay champions such programs as eradication of plastic pollution and works to improve South California's oceans and waterways by monitoring water quality and organizing beach cleanups. The recalled sprouts were packaged in four-ounce plastic cups and one-pound plastic bags under the Caldwell Fresh Foods brand; four-ounce plastic cups under the Nature's Choice brand; five-ounce plastic clamshell containers under the California Exotics brand; and two-pound and five-pound plastic bags in cardboard boxes with a Caldwell sticker.

It is no surprise that the organization representing makers of plastic grocery bags takes issue with your April 16 editorial urging the state to pass a new tax on bags. We simply believe that asking Sacramento to levy a draconian tax that amounts to about 1,250% of a lady dior price Chloe Paraty 's value is out of line, and that all of us in California instead should focus on increasing plastic bag recycling. Plastic bag makers don't begrudge the rapid rise of reusable grocery bags and have no objection to encouraging their use. Now that nearly every major retailer sells inexpensive reusable bags (some even give them away), consumers can bring their own instead of choosing them at checkout. We can live with that; it's their choice. But many shoppers still value the utility of plastic bags, both at the store and at home. Some surveys show that about 90% of consumers reuse plastic grocery bags at home to pack their kids' lunches, line their trash cans or clean up after their dogs. Any plastic bags that aren't reused at home can be returned to stores for recycling. A state law passed recently requires large grocers and retailers to offer recycling bins so we can bring back plastic grocery bags -- plus dry-cleaning film, this newspaper's delivery bag and plastic wraps from bread, paper towels and more -- to be recycled into other products. These products get another life as durable backyard decking, home building products, city park benches and new plastic bags. Contrary to your editorial's assertion that the program is not working gjtxvhjg56, curbside recycling of plastic bags in L.A. County alone grew 62% from 2007 to 2009, according to a report by Sonoma-based Moore Recycling Associates Inc.

In a separate study to be published soon, Moore also found that nationwide bag recycling at stores and curbside together grew 28% from 2005 to 2008, and data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicate that the national recycling rate doubled during this period. That's a huge increase in a very short time period. As lady dior prezzo recycling increases, less of this valuable material goes into the landfills or ends up as litter. Unfortunately, taxing plastic bags likely would result in the dismantling of most of this recycling infrastructure, as the proposed bill eliminates the requirement to offer recycling at stores. And even curbside programs such as L.A.'s that let people put their bags and wraps in other bags for recycling will find it more difficult. Why pass a law encouraging plastic bag recycling and then dismantle the program when it starts to show success? Furthermore, your editorial is simply wrong in contending that "paper doesn't present nearly the same environmental threat as plastic." Plastic bags require 70% less energy to manufacture, produce 50% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and create five times less waste than bulky paper bags. Your editorial does, however, highlight an area on which everyone can agree: Plastics don't belong in our oceans. The question all of us -- beachgoers, boaters, business owners and public officials -- should ask ourselves is this: How do we keep litter out of our oceans in the first place? Scientists, international organizations and activists have concluded that there is no single answer to marine litter. http://www.tripcafe.pl/hermes74 http://www.wedspace.com/blogs/posts/hermes74

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