Musings
BAN PLASTIC BAGS?
By Sue Pascoe · August 28, 2023
Many Palisades residents bring their own bags to the grocery store or ask for paper, but the 2014 law that banned plastic bags has resulted in more plastic, heavier duty plastic, in land fill. A L.A. Times August 24 story (“California’s Plastic Bag Ban Is Failing. Here’s Why”) explained that CalRecycle analyzes what goes in landfill. In 2004, that meant with a population of 35 million people about eight pounds of plastic bags per person went in landfill.
The study was repeated several times over the next years, the most recent was in 2021, when California’s population was 39 million, which worked out to about 11 bags per person. The story quoted the state agency that oversees California recycling “Plastic bags aren’t recycled on a large scale in California,” and added that “despite the ban, more plastic bags are landing in landfills. . . . The reusable plastic bags we get from stores have become de facto single-use ones.”
PALIBU, MALISADES, PALIMALI
Comments continue about the appropriate name for the “new” Palisades/Malibu Chamber of Commerce. One reader had commented, “Although Palibu has a strange ring to it, ‘Malisades’ sounds like a rare form of venereal disease.” A reader in Nebraska wrote “Just as the highway between Tampa and Miami is nicknamed ‘Tamiami,’ could the new chamber’s name become PaliMali?”
HAPPY WORKER
A resident wrote: I have stopped at our post office twice in the last couple of weeks and there has been a super smiling and happy man cleaning the post office. He was there again this morning with a smile and happy to say hello to all that saw him. I thanked him for doing such a great job. We’re lucky to have him.”
Sue Pascoe
Editor, Circling The News ·
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