A special guest editorial from John Quintanilla, Member, Board of Trusteee at Rosemead School District

If the environmental goal is to ban the use of plastic bags, why are so many environmental groups supporting a piece of legislation in California that would replace current plastic bags with a much larger, thicker plastic bags?

According to supporters of the bag ban, plastic bags take hundreds of years to decompose, and when they do break down they release poisons into waterways and threaten wildlife.  More than a hundred, primarily coastal, California communities have banned plastic bags; many more may follow.  Yet Senate Bill 270 – pushed by three State Senators: Kevin de Leon, Alex Padilla, and Ricardo Lara, and sponsored by Californians Against Waste – would undo the actions passed by local communities.

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