HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0064.114 2010-2012To Hawaii County council. 7/13/11
We wish to let you know that we very much oppose Bill 17 from Kohala
Councilman Pete Hoffman to ban retail stores from providing plastic
bags to their customers at checkout.
We oppose this council action for the following reasons:
1) We feel that that the handful of people at the county council
should not be making decisions that affect everyones civil rights
without taking a vote of all of the people on the island.
2 ) The plastic bags have been a valuable asset especially in the
hard times recession that we have been experiencing. People
re -use those bags and paper bags are not as useful for many
purposes.
3) All studies that have been accomplished show that it is not
logical to take the action that you plan to do. They found that the
bags are not showing up in the water where you assume they
are. Those studies were described by Walter Moe when he
contacted you earlier. Either you people did not investigate the
problem very well or think that you know better than the people
that did the studies.
4) Paper bags will cost much more and will require wood
products to produce and will require more storage and shipping.
The extra costs will be passed on to all of us.
Donald Tinker
Tesse Tinker
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