LA County’s plastic bag ban may support MB’s
The city hopes that a ban on plastic bags passed in Los Angeles County last week will give ammunition to Manhattan Beach’s fight to keep its own similar ban. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a preliminary ordinance to ban plastic grocery bags at supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores in unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County. The ordinance also levies a 10-cent fee on paper bags. The Manhattan Beach City Council unanimously passed its own ban on plastic bags in July 2008, with the intention of minimizing plastic debris in the ocean and ultimately phasing into reusable bags. The ban would have made Manhattan Beach the third city in the state to become plastic bag-free, after San Francisco and Malibu. But a month later, the city was sued by the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition — an unincorporated lobbyist group formed of seven plastic bag retailers and a plastic bag recycling company — that alleged the ban was not compliant with the California Environment Quality Act (CEQA). The city has been in litigation over the matter ever since. “The LA County decision supports our goal to ban plastic bags in our city,” said Manhattan Beach…
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