Evanston officials have planned a community meeting May 24 to discuss a recent proposal to ban disposable carryout bags in the city.
The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in council chambers at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.
Members of the city’s Office of Sustainability will be on hand to present the current use and impacts of disposable carryout bags, as well as an overview of the proposed bag ban. Questions and comments from the public will be taken following the presentation.
Members of the city’s Administration and Public Works Committee had recently planned to discuss a proposal by Ald. Coleen Burrus, 9th, to levy a 5-cent tax on each disposable shopping bag given to customers in Evanston stores. However, Ald. Ann Rainey, 8th, said that she would prefer an outright ban on those bags, calling the tax “regressive.”
If the ban were to pass, Evanston would become the first Illinois municipality to ban disposable bags.
I’m glad to see Evanston taking steps to clean its streets and waterways. Living car-free on the south side of town has put me in close contact with lots of discarded bags, wrappers, bottles etc. We should demand city leadership on this issue, and communicate the need for education and empowerment of shoppers to BYOB, in addition to partnering with businesses to make it happen. Tax, ban; I agree with Citizens Greener Evanston and the Environment Board that disposable carryout bags need to go now!
We can’t get rid of grocery bags. Apparently we need them to cover up the actresses at the Tilted Kilt.
Honesty, how much more anti-business does Evanston want to get?
Seven out of every 10 recycled grocery bags in the United States end up at Trex™, a Winchester, Va.-based manufacturer of alternative decking, railing, fencing and trim products.
Trex’s composite products are made of a unique combination of wood and plastic fibers from reclaimed or recycled resources, including sawdust and used pallets from woodworking operations, and about 1.5 billion recycled plastic grocery bags a year from all over the country.
THE ALDERMAN CLAIM THEY GO TO CHINA TO BE BURNED
The city council needs to take a tour of the alleys and look at all the trash falling out of dumpsters. Trash brings rodents and other animals for feeding.
The City Council needs to take a walk down the alleys and look at all the trash coming out of the dumpsters. More are needed to handle garbage from the multi family buildings. TRASH BRINGS RODENTS AND OTHER ANIMALS.
Great idea give people another reason not to shop in Evanston. How many vacant stores in the city now? City Council should spend more time on trying to get businesses to open not closed.
I walk around the area Alderman Burris claims to see hundreds of bags blowing. She needs to look ant them its the bags from free newspaper deliveries that no one picks up. What about the coffee cups,bottles and much more trash blowing around.
THINK AGAIN BEFORE YOU BAN.
cOUNCIL IS VERY UNFRIENDLY TO BUSINESS