Official Summary
Prohibits grocery and other stores from providing customers single–use plastic or paper carryout bags but permits sale of recycled paper bags and reusable bags at a minimum of 10 cents per bag.
Fiscal Impact: Relatively small fiscal effects on state and local governments, including a minor increase in state administrative costs and possible minor local government savings from reduced litter and waste management costs.
- Official CA Voter Guide Summary
- Legislative Analyst Office Analysis
- Show Me The Money (as of Oct 22)
- support: $2,000,000
- oppose: $6,000,000
- Ballotpedia Summary
Notes
- currently 40% of California's population lives in areas where single use bags are banned, normally requiring stores to charge at least 10 cents, which the store keeps
- law was passed (SB 270) in 2014 requiring stores to charge at least 10 cents for carryout bags, and stores keep those monies. If this referendum passes it will go into effect, if not it will be repealed.
- this measure creates new standards for durability of carryout bags
- design: handle good for 125 uses; volume of 15 liters; can carry 22 lbs for min 175 feet; for plastic at least 2.25 mils thick; for fabric at least 80 grams per square meter and sewn
- has label
- able to be cleaned
- recyclable
- does not contain toxic material
- made of post-consumer recycled material min 20% before 2020, 40% after
- special section for compostable bags
- reusable grocery bag producer list maintained
- producers of recyclable bags must be certified every 2 years
- process for consumers to say eusable bag is not up to snuff
- relevant for stores with gross annual sales of over $2 Million of groceries, is over 10,000 sf including pharmacy or is a convenience store that has a liquor license
- customers using WICS don't have to pay for single use bags
- monies collected by stores for single use bags must be used for cost of those bags, complying with regulation and educational materials encouraging use of recyclable bags
- penalty for noncompliance, starting at $1000/day, up to $5000/day
- states that no other laws on single use bags can be implemented or enforced
- provides for loans to producers of reusable bags
- Proposition 65 also concerns single use bags. Here's what would happen if each passes/fails.
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