17 cent bags in SF to help save marine animals

Have you all heard about the initiative to adopt an ordinance requiring a fee on supermarket check-out bags in San Francisco? As I understand it, the idea is to recoup the costs the city incurs in the disposal of check-out bags and to encourage people to bring their own re-useable bags instead. Reducing the disposal of plastic bags could save over 100,000 marine animals which die every year from plastic entanglement or ingestion of plastic bags. Read more about the connection between plastic bags and the marine environment in this article:

"The Plastic Sea"
http://nederland.seashepherd.org/essays/ocean_realm_aut01.html


You can read the SF Gov Bag Free Resolution No. 007-04-COE here:
http://temp.sfgov.org/sfenvironment/aboutus/policy/resolution/007-04.htm


And you can pick up your own re-useable bags made to support this resolution at http://www.17centbags.com