Los Angeles plastic bag ban starts on Jan. 1

The city's Bureau of Sanitation has tried to prepare the public for the coming change, handing out more than 400,000 multi-colored reusable bags and holding a series of events leading up to the Jan.Targa director Peter Martin freely admits that without huge numbers of volunteers,Steel Boned Corsets as well as St John Ambulance staff, marshals and others it would be an impossible task. 1 switch.Sanitation head Enrique Zaldivar said the agency has been working for several years to impose the ban, and looking at what other jurisdictions have done to accomplish the changeover."The one thing we learned is there is a need for education and we know there are going to be people who come into the stores who will be caught by surprise," Zaldivar said. "There are always going to be people who have not heard about it or thought it was coming later."The city will have given out nearly 500,000 reusable bags to let people know the new law is coming, Zaldivar said. 

It has set up a special web page, LACITYBAG.Organize also helps guide users through Apple's little-used Smart Folders functionality, suggesting useful smart folders to add to Finder's sidebar,bottega wallet like one that would display all of the PDF documents on the hard disk.com, to provide information on the ban. It also plans to hand out another 50,000 reusable bags leading up to the start of the program.Kendra Doyel, spokeswoman for the Ralphs grocery chain, said the supermarkets have been reminding customers of the change with signs at their stores and parking lots."We will do reusable bag giveaways around the launch of the ban and we will be reminding customers to bring bags on their next shopping trip," she said.Doyel said a similar strategy has been used in other areas with bag bans and found to be successful in making customers aware of the change.The survey found that in Brazil, India and Singapore that number jumps up significantly,Camouflage Suits as more than two-thirds of respondents in those countries use video conferencing at least once a week.The model used by Los Angeles and a number of other cities was worked out by the California Grocers Association. Supermarkets that have already made the change in other cities have found that most customers tend to bring in reusable bags, rather than pay the 10 cents for paper, according to association spokesman Dave Heylen. 

"The acceptance rate of this model has been extremely high," Heylen said. "What we are seeing is that people are bringing in reusable bags and not asking for paper bags. The number of paper bags being sold is much less than we had anticipated."He added that the association is also working to develop a statewide model to avoid having different regulations in different jurisdictions.