Austin's unsanitary bag ban

Austin American-Statesman:

As Austin’s ban on disposable bags got under way Friday, Lisa Flores came prepared to a North Austin Wal-Mart. 

She brought reusable fabric bags from home to buy a pet carrier, organizational items and a jar of spicy pickles.

“I’ve brought my own reusable bags for a while. So I don’t mind” the ban, she said. “It’s progressive. It’s very little effort for a big gain.”

Another Wal-Mart shopper, Virgil Rohleck, was unhappy about the change.

“There is nothing wrong with plastic bags,” he said, opting to carry out a few items from the store on Anderson Lane. “It’s just another thing they are putting on people to take away their rights.”

The ban prohibits retailers from offering thin, so-called single-use paper or plastic bags. The City Council passed the ban last March, saying thin plastic bags, in particular, often end up as litter and are costly to clean up. The council made the ban effective a year later to give stores and shoppers time to prepare.
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In cities that have already imposed the ban they have seen an increase in food born diseases and people have been advised to wash the reusable bags with a bleach solution after each use.  How many people do you think will do that instead of just throwing the dirty bags into the back of their car?

I have never had a problem throwing plastic bags into my large plastic trash bags.  Banning bags because a few people are messy is an over reaction that will cause people to get sick. The real problem is the excess number of liberals in Austin.