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Urgent Call to Action! Help a Bill to Ban Plastic Bags in Florida!
Posted on April 9, 2014 by STC

URGENT CALL TO ACTION! WE NEED YOU TO HELP FLORIDA BAN PLASTIC BAGS!
Tomorrow morning, Thursday April 10, the FL Senate Environmental
Preservation and Conservation Committee will consider a bill that could
help ban the use of many plastic bags in Florida. The bill, SB 0830
?Carryout Bags? by Sen. Dwight Bullard from South Florida will allow
local governments to adopt ordinances that prohibit stores from handing
out free plastic carryout bags and that require a 10 cent charge for
each recyclable paper bag. Customers are free to supply their own bags.

Currently Florida law prohibits local governments from enacting bans on
plastic bags. This bill would overturn the existing law and establish
uniform statewide standards for cities and counties that want to
implement plastic bag rules. It simply allows citizens and their local
governments the authority to ban plastic bags if they so choose.

The bill provides that the bag ordinance can only apply to large stores
meeting at least $2 million in gross annual sales, or that have at least
10,000 square feet of floor space. (Mom and pop stores are exempt.)

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0830