Perhaps in the grand scheme of all things facing us, this action by New Jersey may seem a little silly; however, it’s still nuts.
Comrades, starting today it is illegal in New Jersey to have plastic or paper bags in stores for shoppers. Additionally, restaurants, cafeterias and food trucks are forbidden to serve take-out food in Styrofoam-like products. Also, all retailers must stop selling polystyrene foam products like plates and cups. Drinking straws require a permit for restricted distribution as monitored by the Department of Health.
To ensure legal compliance within the Garden State, officials in New Jersey have established a snitch hotline for citizens to call the Dept of Environmental Police (DEP) and report dissident violators, while the state ministry of citizen compliance have created a “WARN DEP” app to facilitate easier snitching on your neighbors if you spot them using contraband containers.
“The ban will go into effect [May 4th] nearly 18 months after the law was signed by Gov. Phil Murphy.” ARTICLE
We cannot get to environmental justice without citizen participation, comrades.
Notice how all of the banned plastics are related to food.
Government expansion…
«…and paper bags will be banned in grocery stores.» WHY?
A ban on plastic bags will probably lead to slowing down the rising level of plastic in nature after some time, but paper is bio-degradable and can mostly be burned without releasing any toxics, so I am really curious about the reason for this.
Conservatives should be the true and real protectors of the ecology and health issues in general, this of course while still using the brains God gave us.
From time to time I still see some celebration in the news where thousands and thousands of balloons are released into the air…
The Indy 500 releases thousands of red, white ,and blue ballons every year upon completion of our National Anthem.
Wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world!
We pick up mylar balloons on our property all the time. I hate having to wade into the deep field grass or woods risking a rattlesnake bite to pick them up.
Wood pulp. To save the trees the stores were converted to plastic, now they can’t do plastic. I see government issued bags in Jersey’s future.
I see no future in Jersey and I was born and raised here.
As I am also! This state gets worse with each passing year. I can’t convince my wife to leave! Every chance I get I remind her “I want to LEAVE this commie state.”
I feel the exact same way- I am a lifelong resident of the Gulag known as NY State.
Seneca, Phillie. I managed to convince my wife however we would sooner die than leave here without our grandchildren.
But HEMP was not re-legalized (without onerous regulations and costs) to provide for far more environmentally-friendly paper product sources. Its all about politics.
NY State decreed the end of plastic and paper bags in grocery stores 2 years ago. For a while they could supply paper for a small fee and they were and are selling “cloth” bags. The problem with cloth bags is everyone uses them for months and they are full of germs. My other issue is we are struggling to find bags (fortunately I started hoarding them several years ago) for cleaning the cat litter. Many people have said the same. It’s very tough to think you have to go buy something that was free for so, so long. (Yes, I know they included their bag costs in the grocery costs, but I bet they’ve never removed that charge, also.)
In deep-blue states like NJ and CA that Dimocrats show you who they really are.
Very true! Our gov. didn’t win this last election, it was stolen exactly how they stole it from Trump. The chalenger won but somehow they found eactly how many votes they needed to steal it.
Personally I don’t think we are blue state, we’ve been red for a while now. The problem is the dems control all the parameters of the count! They’ve been cheating for a long time. The only republicans who do win are the likes of rino gov. Whitmer and the fat man! They both talked a good game but came up short. Part of that is the deep blue legislature. Very hard to work with.
I’d bet money that a lot of these climate saving schemes have an alternative with people in power going to make money from the plastic bag ban. Whatever the replacement is will be some democrat making money off of it. Just like when Al Gore got the ban on CFC’s He had a stake in the company that made the replacement!
I agree about the stolen election. I think that NY might be in the same situation.
Yes! I suspect cheating has been going on for a long time, especially downstate. I live in Syracuse, which is pretty blue, but the surrounding suburbs are mostly red. A very high proportion of Syracuse residents are on government assistance. Yet our current mayor won election as an independent (because the idiot Republicans didn’t want him) after knocking on doors throughout the city. So maybe even Syracuse isn’t as blue as it seems to be.
Sure, it’s much better to bring your filthy cloth bags from home or trunk of your car into a food establishment.
Idiots,…..idiots.
Boy, that’s the truth. Animal hair and feces, chemicals, who knows where they have been or what they carried before.
Hmmm. Kind of like homemade masks?
I agree, what if someone places fruit in a dirty bag then puts it back ? You could also have bugs in the bag you leave in your trunk. Now you have bugs in the store.
Snitches get stitches. Or at least they get their car keyed.
Once again, America has more rules to follow, while India, etc. do whatever they want. That’s weird isn’t it, because we issue tons of work permits to India and other places, and so we should be able to get them to stop polluting everything.
Oh how I miss Wegmans. They were a great place to work also. Still family owned–that’s why they are so great.
Now to Sundance’s point–“sustainability” and enviro-nazis are one of the many weapons in the arsenal of the globalists to destroy Main Street and the middle class. It’s been going on for many years.
Maybe a snitch line call reporting certain Democratic NJ members is in order … might be fun!
We in Philly been dealing with the no bag grocery always have to BYOB or buy bag at check out, but people are buying more plastic now those bags had many uses this changes nothing. It’s about failed recycling shop rite bags found on the streets of Vietnam
This is easy! We have the phone number, so everyone, from every State, overwhelm the lines with calls. Report whatever State agency in NJ you hate. Begin with any one of the programs that give money away, and include every department within the hierarchy, the Secretary of State (saw an employee carrying a doggie box, Justice pouring coffee into styrofoam cups in secret meetings.
It doesn’t have to be true! Swamp ‘em. Push back the Alinsky rules right back in their faces. Total derision. We can play this game. It’s a civic duty. 877 WARN-DEP. 877 927-6337
Be sure to dial *67 before the number above to block caller-id.
Thanks! I’d forgotten that trick.
LOVE IT!
Thanks! I just get sick of people shrugging their shoulders and saying they can’t do anything.
Jersey really is a pretty State, but the Dems, as in every other case have ruined it. OK, its highway markings on the exits really stink, but I really like their blueberries. As outsiders, we can give them a hand.
I wonder who recently bought into the paper/cardboard business(es) providing the “new” (old) take-out boxes, hmmm, kick-back much?
The Green Police
I’ve deliberately missed the SB, so thanks for the warning.
Seems like a great reason to rid ourselves of GOVERNMENT, not to buy a POS Audi.
“I don’t use plastic bags”…. except the one on your fingers?🤣
The easiest way to beat this thing is for people there to flood the lines with prank calls and fake concerns. Just like they did in the neighboring NYC under commissar DeBlasio. This is so over the top, and reminds us of the paternalism of our politicians today.
I wish gov’t would GTFO of the way and leave us alone! These plastic bag bans, for me, are a PITA. I reuse many of the plastic bags I get. They’re splendid as trash bags in your car or a small waste paper basket. They’re also good for cleaning out the cat litter. Whatever bags I don’t reuse, I recycle. I’m SO GLAD I escaped the People’s Republic of NJ 12 years ago…
I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags were touted as a way to “save a tree.”
I’m old enough to remember when trees were touted as filtering the atmosphere.
Thanks for the info. I will add NJ to the list of states that I will never enter for any reason what-so-ever.
The guy at the checkout asks paper of plastic, my wife and i say no! We just put the stuff back into the shopping cart and wheel it to the car and put it all into boxes in the trunk. When we get home care the boxes inside, store the boxes in a closet.
I hate having plastic/styrofoam, fill up my garbage cans, but what do you do. The one supporting these loony ideas and people are the one producing this garbage. The whole system is fubar.
I recycle all my plastic bags and styrofoam cups . . . by burning them along with all my other combustible refuse. That’s how it’s done in rural Texas.
Oh, and steel and aluminum are sold for $ at the scrap yard!
My rule of thumb for recycling: If nobody will pay me for it, it goes in the trash.
As always, missing from the discussion are the ACTUAL realities of cloth bags, paper bags, reusable plastic bags (the heavy duty ones), and the very thin typical grocery bags. Plenty of research has been done on the environmental impact, energy usage, etc. for all of them, and the only ones that come out looking tolerable, are the thin plastic ones. They look even better if you recycle them or reuse them for other things (we put our kitchen trash into them before disposal). The paper bags are made from wood pulp which requires lots of horrible chemicals to create (versus HEMP paper that is far more environmentally friendly, but which cannot be grown or processed without dealing with huge governmental regulatory issues – all stemming from the government-big business collusion in the 1930s to effectively tax HEMP out of utility – read “The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herrer for all the details). The other two reusables, require so much energy that they would need to be used so many thousands of times each to “break even” that nobody even lives that long. But an HONEST discussion about anything related to the environment, energy, environmental impacts of decisions, etc. can NEVER be had anymore in this country. To do so would undermine the entire climate change agenda, the EV agenda, the anti-fossil fuel agenda, the nuclear agenda, etc. But humanity would certainly benefit from an honest discussion and fact-filled debate on ALL of these issues.
And dog walkers are supposed to pick up the dog-do with what, if not a plastic bag? Or are they supposed to leave it on their neighbors’ lawns as fertilizer, for the sake of climate justice?