LA to become biggest city to ban plastic bags

Every pouch within the IMMS has a label, whether it's a bleeder bag or an airway bag, he said. If the vision is realized, a medic can pick up resupplies of specific, prepacked pouches from medevac helicopters or in a combat support hospital, he said.This helps medics save time and makes them more efficient,The punctures are too small to recognize with german uniforms the naked eye. especially if they are returning to the fight, Drayton said.Starting Jan. 1, large grocery chains in Los Angeles can no longer offer plastic shopping bags at the checkout line. And while paper bags will still be an option, shoppers who request them will have to pay 10 cents per bag.Trust me. When I came home, we cut it into a 15-minute reel, and when I moved to NYC,shoes supplier I networked it around and it got into the right hands.The changes are part of a new city ordinance geared at pushing Angelenos toward reusable bags. 

"The reason for doing this is to protect our environment," said Daniel Hackney, special projects manager at the city's Bureau of Sanitation.Hackney said that it's hard to quantify how much banning plastic bags will reduce the waste stream,Brian Babcock-Lumish,handbags and purses came up with the student exchange idea last summer after meeting an institute professor at a local food event. but "probably the No. 1 item we find in catch basins around town is grocery store plastic bags."LA is the largest city in the country to adopt a plastic bag ban, and joins 90 other communities statewide that already have similar laws including Long Beach, Glendale, Pasadena and Santa Monica. The LA ban will initially apply to thousands of chain stores across the city ranging from traditional supermarkets such as Von's and Food-4-Less to retailers that sell groceries like Target and Wal-Mart. 

Thousands more convenience stores and independent groceries will have until July 1 to abide by the new ordinance because they're smaller and have fewer resources than the chains, Hackney said.Outside the Ralph's in Silver Lake, shoppers were alerted to the upcoming change by signs at the entrance. Response was mixed. Nicole Richards said that she uses plastic bags to line the kitty litter box, and will have to find an alternative when the ban takes effect. But she supports the new law. "I think in the long run, I think it's going to be much better for the environment," Richards said.Alex Bravo, on the other hand, said he doesn't understand why he should have to pay for a paper bag if he wants one."Customers should be entitled to bags," said Bravo, whose household uses plastic bags to line trash cans. "They're already putting money into the store."