SF News State AG Calls Out Plastic Bag Companies, Says Bags Aren’t Actually Recyclable California Attorney General Rob Bonta says plastic bag manufacturers are flat-out ignoring a law that their bags must be recyclable, and says grocery bag makers must produce proof that bags can be recycled.
SF News When Would The 2016 Ballot Measures Go Into Effect? An Analysis [Update: This post has been updated with additional detail on whether you can keep a pot plant on your front porch.] Fans (and foes!) of marijuana, soda, cigarettes, plastic bags, and pornography have
SF News Plastic Bag Manufacturers Ready To Delay, Undo California's New Bag Ban In a move that surprised no one today, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB270, aka "California's plastic bag ban" into law. Just as unsurprisingly, the folks who make plastic bags are pissed, and say
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reminder: Your Takeout Bag Now Costs 10 Cents A year after San Francisco saved the entire planet from self-destruction by banning plastic shopping bags and imposing a 10-cent fee on all others, the same fee is now coming to your favorite
SF News An Argument For Plastic Bags Starting October 1, the city of San Francisco will not only ban plastic bags, but they will also charge you ten cents per paper bag. The money accrued will go back to the
SF News Paper Bag Fee Approved, Pink Plastic Bags Face Danger Of Extinction At yesterday's meeting the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a 10-cent fee for every bag (paper, compostable, or reusable) your local grocer's bagman decides to hand out. While we've gotten used to not
SF News Great Pacific Garbage Patch A Hoax? You know the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that's splashed on your TV screen during Earth Day? The one that's supposed to scare you into bringing your own bag to Whole Foods? That alleged
SF News So Much For That Plastic Bag Ban Well, well, well. What do we have here? Plastic bags. At the Masonic Lucky's supermarket. Destroying the environment. Making Ross Mirkarimi vomit. Actually, these bags, which have appeared at supermarkets since Halloween, are
SF News Plastic Bag Ban to Expand? While plastic bags in San Francisco aren't really banned -- look no further than Chinatown or any independently-owned liquor store to find a bag of crinkly delight -- San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
SF News Pink Bags One Step Closer To Losing Their Prominence on the 30-Stockton Honestly, we don't know if we really want to live in a San Francisco without pink plastic bags. While they still live on, today they moved closer to obsolescence. Today plastic bags were
misc Best Crafts of 2007 We already decided to only leave the house for essentials this weekend, like liquor and toothpaste, so we were thrilled to stumble upon one last 'best of' list for 2007. Craftster, the hub
SF News Paper Bag Coverage With stations like KTVU reporting live at the scene, don't be surprised to find Claudine Wong in your face as the checker bags your condoms, okra, and 2-for-1 enema packs. And if you
SF News Blue Angels Committee Vote As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. Daly, who's been working
SF News Political Junkie: Costco Ross! Well, how surprised were we to see, nestled in among the articles about Kirkland brand disposable diapers (page 61, they're now selling them in 38-day packs) and tips on furniture-shopping at the warehouse
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco World News - Tonight! In other local TV news items that have managed to make their way into our In Box, this Saturday, NBC 11 is airing a documentary called "Dreams to Dust: Americans Interned," which follows
SF News Hacking Muni Part One: How to Try to Catch a Bus We are SO THRILLED thatGavin wants to rescind parking passes and also to have all city vehicles impounded and converted into community gardens. Not only does that mean fewer cars on the road,
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork's Answer to all those Plastic Bags In the spirit of the plastic bag ban we thought we'd weigh in with some of our own suggestions. We think CNN's Glenn Beck needs a new dress. Maybe when he sends all
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
misc One Last Dance With Your Plastic Bags In honor of SFist Jon's recent karaoke catastrophe caught on tape, we, the arbiters of good taste at SFist, present you with the Backstreet Plastic Bag Boys' brazilliant idea for what to do
SF News But Wait! There's More! What will dog owners do now? Currently, the little plastic bags aren't biodegradable but can be recycled-- it's just that it's really hard to get them recycled. Or, at least this is true
SF News Free Plastic Bags! The vote passed by a 10-1 margin with only cranky old Ed Jew providing the nay vote. We would assume that the vote would draw usual cries of "oh no they didn't" but
misc Puppy Love We want a dog so bad we've taken to following strangers in the street in the hope that they'll stop at the “don’t walk sign” and let us pet Fido. One may
SF News Greening San Francisco Bring your own bag Paper bags are just as bad as plastic in their own way, so whenever possible, bring your own bag to the grocery store. Pretty much every grocery store carries
SF News San Francisco's Got A Brand New Bag Naturally, everyone is a little upset. Gavin, who supported the measure, said he was deceived. Ross Mirkirami, the one who first proposed the measure, isn't very happy and wants to schedule a hearing.
