Your ability to get plastic bags to carry home your groceries and leftovers could now be up to Gov. Doug Ducey.
On a 19-11 vote Thursday the Senate gave final approval to SB 1241 which forbids local government from enacting any sort of restrictions on the use of those plastic sacks. That includes everything from mandatory recycling programs to charging customers for the bags to encourage the use of reusable fabric bags.
Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said such restrictions might make sense in a place like New York City which is running out of landfill space. He said there is no such problem in Arizona.
But Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, said that argument proves his point. He said the state does not operate landfills here, with that responsibility left up to local governments.
"Let them decide if they have a problem,'' Farley said.
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Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, said the problem with plastic bags is the making of environmental interests who decades ago decried the use of paper bags because it meant cutting down trees.
