City Council to consider plastic-bag ban Tuesday [bag]
City Council to consider plastic-bag ban Tuesday
Tuesday's City Council meeting will feature a proposal to ban plastic bags commonly provided to customers during checkout at the city's two grocery stores, Clark's Market and City Market.The measure, which appeared to have majority council support when discussed at a Sept. 12 meeting, also seeks to impose on shoppers a 20-cent charge for each paper bag provided at checkout.The overall goal of the ordinance, as the city's Environmental Health Department has stated, is to reduce the amount of paper- and plastic-bag waste ending up in local landfills. Research shows that only a small percentage of consumers recycle their grocery bags.
“This ordinance has the potential to eliminate a large percentage of plastic bags from Aspen's environment, while also reducing the amount of single-use paper shopping bags that are used and thrown away by 50-80 percent, thus … benefiting Aspen's and the global environment,” said environmental health specialist Ashley Cantrell in a recent memo to the council.The public may comment on the plastic-bag ban and paper-bag fee. The council normally holds its regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, but will meet Tuesday because city government employees are off today, courtesy of the Columbus Day holiday.
Until the Sept. 12 meeting, the city had been moving toward a fee on plastic and paper bags at the two stores.GM debuts new air bag, lane departure system. But councilmen Adam Frisch, Torre and Steve Skadron indicated that they were more in favor of a ban on plastic bags than a fee, directing Cantrell to revamp the ordinance.Local grocery-store operators, in support of the fee as long as they could derive some of the revenue to cover costs, have voiced displeasure over the move toward an outright ban, Cantrell said in the memo.
Tuesday's City Council meeting will feature a proposal to ban plastic bags commonly provided to customers during checkout at the city's two grocery stores, Clark's Market and City Market.The measure, which appeared to have majority council support when discussed at a Sept. 12 meeting, also seeks to impose on shoppers a 20-cent charge for each paper bag provided at checkout.The overall goal of the ordinance, as the city's Environmental Health Department has stated, is to reduce the amount of paper- and plastic-bag waste ending up in local landfills. Research shows that only a small percentage of consumers recycle their grocery bags.
“This ordinance has the potential to eliminate a large percentage of plastic bags from Aspen's environment, while also reducing the amount of single-use paper shopping bags that are used and thrown away by 50-80 percent, thus … benefiting Aspen's and the global environment,” said environmental health specialist Ashley Cantrell in a recent memo to the council.The public may comment on the plastic-bag ban and paper-bag fee. The council normally holds its regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, but will meet Tuesday because city government employees are off today, courtesy of the Columbus Day holiday.
Until the Sept. 12 meeting, the city had been moving toward a fee on plastic and paper bags at the two stores.GM debuts new air bag, lane departure system. But councilmen Adam Frisch, Torre and Steve Skadron indicated that they were more in favor of a ban on plastic bags than a fee, directing Cantrell to revamp the ordinance.Local grocery-store operators, in support of the fee as long as they could derive some of the revenue to cover costs, have voiced displeasure over the move toward an outright ban, Cantrell said in the memo.
2011-10-11 14:59
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