SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ? Santa Cruz County, California, becomes the latest municipality to ban plastic bags when the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this week to do so, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.
The law will apply to grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores and will add a dime per paper bag. However, restaurants will be able to hand out one paper bag per customer for takeout. The new law goes into effect next year.
?I think people in this county are ready for it,? said Mark Stone, who chairs the Board and who authored the proposal.
California lawmakers have resisted approving a statewide plastic bag ban twice before, but a growing number of cities and counties have passed their own bans, including Long Beach, Oakland, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Santa Monica.
Santa Cruz?s law would not charge residents on public assistance for paper bags. The paper bag fee, which will begin at 10 cents per bag, will rise to a quarter per bag after the law has been in effect for a year. Retailers would get to hang onto the fee. ?Maybe it is more than what other jurisdictions would do, but that's Santa Cruz,? said Stone.
Other California cities, including Monterey, are considering possible plastic bag bans.
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