It’s a ban! It’s a tax! It’s two awful ideas in one! I’ll be back with more info on House Bill 536 in a bit. Keep listening at KPAM 860 because we’ll be listening in to some of the testimony if possible today. For background on previous efforts to kill the non plastic-multi-use-totally-recyclable-doesn’t-cause-swirling-mass-of-garbage-in-the-ocean bag, please see my previous posts and interviews below.

Previous posts here, here,  here, here, here, here, here, here, here,  here,  here,  here. 

Listen to interviews on the subject:

• Stephen Joseph with SaveThePlasticBag.com Part 1 Click to Listen
• Stephen Joseph with SaveThePlasticBag.com Part 2 Click to Listen
• Joe Gilliam, President of NW Grocery Association on plastic bag ban  Click to Listen 
• Tim Shestek – Sr. Director of State Affairs for American Chemistry Council talks to Victoria about Oregon’s proposed plastic bag ban  Click here to listen!!! 
• And now Cascade Policy Institute has just issued a new study on the effect of what is tantamount to–not just a ban of one kind of bag–but a TAX on the other. See their study here.  

See this tidbit: