Shoreline residents to kick off initiative petition to repeal Shoreline plastic bag ban
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Local residents opposed to the City of Shoreline’s recent action banning the distribution of plastic carryout bags are circulating an initiative petition to repeal the ban.
Their effort, in partnership with Save Our Choice, an organizer of similar efforts in Seattle and Issaquah, will officially kick off on Saturday, May 18. Signature gatherers will be stationed outside Haggen Northwest Fresh, located at 1201 N 175th Street in Shoreline, between 10am and 5pm.
“The City has overstepped its bounds,” said petition co-organizer Tom Jamieson, a Shoreline resident. “This ordinance unjustifiably restrains trade, punishes customers, provides no provable benefit to the environment, and includes no method for measuring reductions in waste or litter. Moreover, reusable bags have not been shown to be in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the people of the City of Shoreline.”
Ordinance No. 653, which regulates the distribution of plastic and paper carryout bags by Shoreline retail establishments was adopted by the Shoreline City Council on April 29, 2013. The new regulations become effective on February 1, 2014.
The initiative petition calls for adoption of a new ordinance prohibiting regulation of the distribution of retail carryout bags; and repealing Shoreline Ordinance No. 653. Approximately 6,000 signatures must be collected by July 13. The City Council would then have to either adopt the new ordinance in its entirety (thereby repealing Ordinance No. 653) or put the question to the voters in the City’s next general election.
The Shoreline Initiative Petition is available for download.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Tom Jamieson at 206-300-7606. Contributions (check, no cash) may be mailed to Save Our Choice, PO Box 16716, Seattle, WA 98116.
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Personally, I ink we haven't gone far enough. Ban Round Up and other chemicals polluting Puget Sound.
Sorry Tom J, you're not only using dinosaurs in your plastic bag, you're also thinking like one.
Who cares what you ink?
Sustainability through government intervention is itself not sustainable. For by such extreme measures does liberty vanish by inch and mile, and with it man's mind and the essence of humanity. Those who have become convinced that the regulation of plastic carryout bags (or any other element of a totalitarian agenda) is even a small step toward a utopian, sustainable planet in which man leaves only a minimal footprint have been fooled by those seeking to control man, and to redistribute the fruits of man's labor--after skimming a little off the top for themselves, of course.
Governmental control of every aspect of human life does not scale. Every attempt to make it so has failed miserably, though not before much bloodshed. Tyranny by majority is not the answer. Enlightened self-control is. Save government for those functions which are essentially governmental, and which do scale (like military, police, and courts). Let the power set of human ingenuity address the complex problems, as they always have. Don't leave such important work to a few Google-cramming bureaucrats or backroom deal-makers prepping on the eve of their next city council, commission, or school board meeting.
See http://www.savetheplasticbag.com/ for info such as this:
"There is a danger that the green herd, in pursuit of a good cause, stumbles into misguided campaigns….
Many of those who have demonized plastic bags have enlisted scientific study to their cause. By exaggerating a grain of truth into a larger falsehood, they spread misinformation and abuse the trust of their unwitting audiences."
"In their eagerness to make their case [against plastic bags], some of the environmental groups make up claims that are not really supportable."
Don't let Shoreline be the next victim of unsubstantiated science, and make us pay the high costs via untended consequences..just so a select group of activists can "feel good" about "doing something to save mother earth"
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