Sentences with phrase «plastic bag fees»

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The Greens — part of the coalition to pass the legislation in NYC — also said that plastic bag fees work and that the arguments made by State Senator Simcha Felder and his cosponsors were disingenuous to the public and their actions harmful to the environment.

Suffolk County and the City of Long Beach have enacted plastic bag fees.

Fast - forward five years and plastic bag fees are in full retreat.

In addition to offering reusable bags and implementing a plastic bag fee, Walmart will be improving its in - store recycling and collection programs.

Five - cent plastic bag fee to discourage single use bags and eliminate plastic film from municipal land - fill to be implemented at Walmart stores in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec...

Supporters of the plastic bag fee say it's designed to cut down on environmentally harmful waste and surcharges in other cities have worked better than outright bans.

But opponents contend the plastic bag fee is essentially a regressive tax on consumers.

State lawmakers yesterday began the process of bagging NYC's 5 - cent plastic bag fee.

State Senator Simcha Felder of Brooklyn, in Albany on Tuesday, is among the opponents of New York City's plastic bag fee.

Councilman Brad Lander, a Democrat from Brooklyn, right, and Oliver Harwood, supporters of the plastic bag fee.

The Citizens Budget Commission and many others have had enough: it's time for New York City to act on imposing a plastic bag fee.

Two supporters of the 5 - cent plastic bag fee, Councilman Brad Lander, a Democrat from Brooklyn, and Oliver Harwood, who wore a costume made of hundreds of plastic bags, in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

«Yet for their very first environmental bill of the year, the Senate Majority Coalition has chosen to do the bidding of corporate special interests and overturn New York City's plastic bag fee.

What do you think about the plastic bag fee?

These are the Democratic Senators who joined me and voted against the (5 cents) per plastic bag fee: Joseph Addabbo, Tony Avella, Leroy Comrie, Simcha Felder, Michael Gianaris, Jeff Klein, José Peralta, Roxanne Persaud, Diane Savino, and David Valesky.

As you know, there were only 10 Democratic Senators, together with myself, who joined the Republicans in the Senate to support a bill sponsored by Senator Simcha Felder, to reject the City of New York's five cents (5 cents) per plastic bag fee to shoppers in the five boroughs.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said she and her colleagues are exploring «legal options» to counter Gov. Andrew Cuomo «s decision last night to sign legislation banning implementation of the five - cent paper and plastic bag fee the city passed last year — and accused the governor of slandering the Council.

The bill now goes to Governor Andrew Cuomo who holds the fate of the city's plastic bag fee in his hands.

SZ: To me, this is also a reminder that we need to make a distinction between creating an incentive, which sounds like a cold calculation, and creating awareness or a focus like the plastic bag fee does.

Not exact matches

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

In Gladwell's parlance, plastic - bag fees had tipped.

Consider the demonization of individual water bottles, a move that predates the plastic - bag fee.

Walmart will continue to offer plastic bags at a fee of five cents per bag to those customers who request them.

«We know from our experience in other international markets that an incentive in the form of a fee to encourage customers to adopt reusable bags reduces single - use plastic bags by more than 50 %.

The New York City Council voted 28 - 20 to require certain retailers to collect a fee on each carryout bag, paper or plastic, with some exceptions, with Mayor Bill de Blasio expressing support for the measure.

NYC First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said the administration would support a ban or fee on plastic shopping bags, which the City Council has been eying to pass.

At 10 a.m., Sens. Simcha Felder, Marty Golden, Andrew Lanza, Roxanne Persaud, and Diane Savino, and Assemblymen Michael Cusick and Dov Hikind initiate a «Stop the Bag Tax Petition» to prevent NYC from charging taxes or other fees for plastic and paper carryout bags, Market, 60th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn.

Currently, 10 municipalities in the state have plastic bag bans while some others, including Long Beach and Suffolk County, have enacted fees.

The DN praises Cuomo for «finally deciding» to do something about plastic bags, but adds: «the statewide ban he now proposes, more than a year after letting the state Legislature trash the City Council's better idea to impose a 5 - cent per - bag fee, is the wrong answer to a real scourge.»

State legislation sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright and state Sens. Brad Hoylman and Liz Krueger would ban plastic carryout bags and create a 5 - cent fee.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Two Democratic state lawmakers from Manhattan on Monday called for a statewide ban on the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag and a fee on paper bags as a way to encourage renewable alternatives and crack down on one of the greatest sources of environmental pollution.

Urge Governor Cuomo and your state Senator and Assemblymember to co-sponsor and fight to enact S7760 / A9953 that would ban polluting single - use plastic bags and place a 10 - cent fee on paper.

A year ago, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rejected a five - cent fee on plastic shopping bags at retail stores.

Environmentalists also expressed disappointment with Cuomo's proposal, noting it exempts several types of plastic bags and does not impose a fee on paper bags to encourage the use of reusable bags.

As the Republican - controlled Senate Tuesday prepares to vote on legislation that would block New York City from enacting a five - cent fee on plastic bags, an environmental group is urging the Legislature to let the surcharge take effect.

After state lawmakers stepped in last week to vote on legislation that would delay the implementation of a plastic and paper bag fee in New York City, a Brooklyn assemblyman, Felix Ortiz, is looking to discourage use of disposable bags statewide.

«New York lawmakers should act this session to pass a plastic bag law based on best practices, which includes a fee for other bags, to adequately address the burden of plastic bags.»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Tuesday that blocked implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic shopping bags that was to go into effect the following day in New York City.

However, we continue to support either a fee on all single - use bags, which has been effective in many jurisdictions including Suffolk County, or a ban on plastic bags with a fee on all other single - use bags.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- State lawmakers held a hearing Friday to examine whether New York City's plan to impose a fee on plastic bags will be a burden on consumers.

I'm sure they now think it is an even better idea than putting 5p on plastic bags, an idea David Laws assures me is the most popular policy the LibDems have put forward since, er, the abolition of tuition fees.

I am living with a 5 cent fee on both plastic and paper bags in Suffolk County, compliments of the Democrats in the county legislature and the Democrat county executive.

Other council members pointed to studies showing plastic bag use is on the rise in cities that have instituted similar punitive fees, like San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

ALBANY — The yearslong debate over whether to impose a fee for plastic bags in New York appeared to come to a hard - fought end last month, when the City Council voted to charge 5 cents for most plastic and paper shopping bags.

But the State Legislature this week voted to block the city's duly enacted law, doing the bidding of the plastic - bag industry, and hiding behind the argument that the fee is a tax on the poor.

A New York City Housing Authority tenant leader tore into Manhattan Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal for leading chants claiming families can afford a proposed 10 - cent fee on plastic bags at a rally in favor of the measure earlier this week.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the state legislature debated a bill to stop New York City from putting a 5 cent fee on plastic shopping bags, it wasn't just downstate interests that were watching closely.

Green officers said that if the Legislature and Governor were truly concerned about the costs of the fee, they would move quickly to ban plastic bags entirely as California and Hawaii have done.