Plastic Grocery Bags in Minneapolis
From:
Jason Stone
Date:
Mar 17 22:44 UTC
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Thank you all for the kick in the pants--I've been meaning to buy some reusable
grocery bags and you just motivated me to take action. I'm sorry for the lost
BTU Susan Young, but I can partially compensate by trickling political yard
signs into the trash.
I've tried corn starch bags and they worked effectively (if you're not bagging
sticks or other pokey things) but were indeed fairly expensive even before
ethanol boomed.
Regards,
Jason Stone
Diamond Lake
----- Original Message ----
From: Constance Sullivan <sulli002@umn.edu>
To: Minneapolis Issues Forum <mpls@forums.e-democracy.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:40:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Plastic Grocery Bags in Minneapolis
At 8:03 AM +1300 3/18/08, Mark Snyder wrote:
>I think the legislative bill Trash Lady is referring to is
>HF0347/SF0264, which would require yard waste bags to be
>compostable, which I have to say kind of makes sense to me.
>
>Text can be found at
>https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0347.0.html&session=ls85
>
I understand that there are yard waste bags that decompose because
they're made of cornstarch. I have five ever-taller trees on my
40-foot wide lot, and would dearly love to not use plastic for the
leaves.
I imagine that cornstarch bags are pretty expensive, now that corn
futures and actual prices are so high because of the ethanol boom.
But, still, where can we get them in Minneapolis?
Connie
fills about 25 large leaf bags each fall, in Como
Southeast Minneapolis
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Constance A. Sullivan
1071 14th Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Tel: 612-378-0101
Connie Sullivan
Southeast Como, Minneapolis
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