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Readers React
California's pseudo-environmentalist bag ban

OCTOBER 2, 2014, 4:09 PM

To the editor: For years I have shopped at Trader Joe's, always taking
my groceries home in a paper bag since the grocery chain does not have a
plastic bag option. During these years I have also participated in the
annual Friends of the L.A. River cleanups (as well as monthly local
beach cleanups), yet never once have I thought that plastic bags were
the biggest problem during those events. ("Statewide ban on disposable
plastic bags is signed into law by Brown," Sept. 30)

Now, Gov. Jerry Brown has decided to sign into law a ban on single-use
plastic bags (I don't know why they are labeled single-use, since they
are easily reused). This comes across as a way for Brown to make himself
look like he cares about the environment.

This ban simply puts more money in the pockets of store owners and
further strains those living on modest or fixed incomes. If Brown were a
true environmentalist, he would address other more important issues and
stop the state from bending laws to entice companies, such as Tesla
Motors, to build environmentally unfriendly plants here.

Carmen Valdés, Long Beach