Tag: plastic bags
Seattle joins global movement to protect marine wildlife
News Release
Today the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to pass Council Bill 117345, a bill to protect Puget Sound and protect marine wildlife by banning plastic carry-out bags. The bill encourages the use of reusable shopping bags by requiring grocers and retailers to charge a nickel for paper bags.
Posted: December 19th, 2011 under Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember Burgess, Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Licata, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Rasmussen, News Releases.
Tags: Bag Ban, Bagshaw, Burgess, Clark, Conlin, Godden, Harrell, Licata, O'Brien, plastic bags, Rasmussen
Saving Puget Sound: Seattle’s proposed plastic bag ban
As you have probably heard about or read about by now, Seattle City Council has introduced a bill that would make a great step towards protecting Puget Sound and ocean waters and reducing unnecessary waste by banning single-use plastic carryout bags. We will hold a public hearing on the plastic bag ban bill on December […]
[Full Post]Posted: December 1st, 2011 under Councilmember O'Brien.
Tags: Bag Ban, plastic bags
Seattle joins regional and global movement to ban single-use plastic bags
News Release
Today Seattle City Council introduced Council Bill 117345, intended to help clean up Puget Sound and protect marine wildlife by banning single-use plastic bags. This legislation gives Seattle an opportunity to join Bellingham and Edmonds in Washington, as well as cities up and down the West Coast and more than 20 nations worldwide in efforts to curb the impact of single-use plastic bags on the environment.
Posted: November 21st, 2011 under Councilmember Bagshaw, Councilmember Burgess, Councilmember Godden, Councilmember Harrell, Councilmember Licata, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Rasmussen, News Releases.
Tags: Bag Ban, Bagshaw, Burgess, Clark, Conlin, Godden, Harrell, Licata, O'Brien, plastic bags, Rasmussen
YES — It’s Time to Ban Plastic Bags
I must confess. In 2009, at the Stranger/WA Bus Candidate Survivor event, I stood in a corner almost by myself against the then- proposed plastic bag fee. Though as a sailor I had seen first-hand the debris in our oceans and was aware of adverse affects plastic bags have on the environment, I just didn’t […]
[Full Post]Posted: November 21st, 2011 under Councilmember Bagshaw.
Tags: plastic bags
Seattle City Council to introduce legislation to protect Puget Sound
News Release
On Monday, November 21, Seattle City Council will introduce Council Bill 117345 to help clean up Puget Sound and protect marine wildlife by banning single-use plastic bags from grocers and retailers. Seattle’s legislation is largely modeled on the Bellingham ordinance passed in July 2011.
Posted: November 18th, 2011 under Councilmember O'Brien, News Releases.
Tags: Bag Ban, O'Brien, plastic bags