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Paper or Plastic in Maryland?
posted 2:14 pm Thu March 06, 2008 -
The Maryland General Assembly is currently considering banning plastic bags from certain retailers, it's an idea opposed by area grocery store chains.
Greg TenEyck with Safeway considers the idea threatening, "Paper bags are probably three times more expensive than plastic bags and in this economy and with the business that we're in we operate on a very thin net profit margins it would strain our business if we could only provide paper bags and not plastic." Retailers say the cost of the more expensive paper bags would ultimately be passed along to the consumer. Bill supporters say plastic bags are being used at a rate of a million bags a minute and are having a devastating effect on the environment.
"It's a huge amount of environmental pollution that's needless. There all alternatives We can use paper bags and reusable bags instead," said Environmentalist Jane Houlihan.Annapolis considered such a ban, but it failed, leaving San Francisco the only city in the country to outlaw plastic bags.
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