They doubt city has legal authority to tell any retailer 'how much your good has to sell for'Toronto stores hand out 460 million shopping bags a year – and starting next June, shoppers may have to pay 5 cents each for them under a plan worked out between the city and big grocery retailers.
Plastic bags by the numbers460 million - Plastic shopping bags used in Toronto each year
3.5 billion - Plastic shopping bags used in Ontario each year
20 minutes - Average time each bag is used
400 years - Time it takes for a plastic shopping bag to break down
Source - Toronto Star LibraryYou can read more about this in today's
Toronto Star.
I think this is an excellent idea!
Gord and I bought the reuseable bags during the summer and love them!
We usually shop at
No Frills and they have been charging a nickel a bag for years so we're used to this. We shop at
Metro occasionally and they doesn't charge for bags.
The
liquor store stopped making plastic bags months ago and, once their supply is gone as it is in our local one, you have to use paper bags or boxes or bring your own.
The workshop was interesting. I'd read the book a year and a half ago and it was good to be reminded about the principles of the law of attraction.
Interesting list in today's Toronto Star.
From Amazon.com ~ It's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the week-old corpse of an apparent suicide. But the gunshot victim is less gruesome than what they find in his lap: a photo album of seven brutally murdered young women -- one per year, for seven years. And when the suicide victim is identified as a former suspect in one of the murders, the news turns Elvis Cole's world upside down.
From Amazon ~ "We're Here for a Good Time" - "Raise a Little Hell" - "The Boys in the Bright White Sportscar" - all Canadian anthems - all recorded by Trooper. "The Globe and Mail" calls them "honest-to-God Canadian legends". "The Toronto Sun" lauds the ongoing strength of their "Boomer/Gen X cachet". They have sold millions of albums, have travelled tens of thousands of miles, and, for thirty years, have borne first-hand witness to an amazing era in popular music: "sex, drugs, and rock & roll" and the long hard road where careers are made and broken. Ra McGuire, Trooper's charismatic leader, singer and songwriter, still travels that road, performing 100 shows a year from Tofino to Torbay and everywhere in between. Famous for his quick wit and sometimes too-candid stage banter, McGuire has always had a knack for keeping audiences on the edge of their seats. In this book, he reveals the peaks and valleys of his life on the road, and the joys and challenges of being a 50-something rock star at large in the country he knows like the back of his hand.
Chia kitty liked it too because there was sparkling wine.
I attended a focus group this evening.
There's the CN Tower in the distance.
Gord and I saw David Wilcox tonight at the Diesel Playhouse.
