me some plastic? >> reporter: andy keller is the bag monster. here you go. the bag monster travels across the united states -- >> behold the bag monster! >> reporter: -- wearing costumes he creates from 500 plastic bags. >> people can come, try on a bag monster. see what it feels like to wear what you use in a single year. >> reporter: his goal, eliminate using single use plastic and paper bags and plastic bags to seem to be everywhere. including everywhere they shouldn't be. in the street. up a tree. in lakes and streams. >> my whole mission is to help humanity kick their habit. >> reporter: keller's mission to save the environment is all consuming. at chicobag, his company in northern california, even the chickens get in on the act. recycling employee garbage. >> they'll take care of this compost within a day. >> reporter: chicobag sells reusable bags that can fit in your pocket. it's keller's brain child. inspired when he visited this. the local landfill. >> nice cushion here. here's a bed frame. w

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there were plastic bags under cars. there were plastic bags in door ways. and in bushes. and worst of all there was a plastic bag clogging a storm drain. which leads directly to the bay. i didn't touch or arrange any of these before i took the photo es. i want to commend the city for banning plastic bags from large retail establishments and submit these tos to you as evidence that we have to go further. there is still too much plastic bag litter in san francisco. so please vote to amend the environment code from all retail establishments and food blitches. supervisor avalos: thank you very much. next speaker please? steven colonel and michelle welch. >> thank you very much. tim james, california groceries representing a chain and independent stores 80% of our membership is actually independent grocery stores. speaking today, in regards to the ordinance that given the changes that are being made to the ordinance not only today but overall, we feel as an industry that we're actually comfortable implementing such an ordinance. we're one of the few sfris that was included in

me some plastic?rter: andy keller is the bag monster. here you go. the bag monster travels across the united states -- >> behold the bag monster! >> reporter: -- wearing costumes he creates from 500 plastic bags. >> people can come, try on a bag monster. see what it feels like to wear what you use in a single year. >> reporter: his goal, eliminate using plastic and paper bags. plastic bags do seem to be everywhere. including everywhere they shouldn't be. in the street. up a tree. in lakes and streams. >> my whole mission is to help humanity kick their habit. >> reporter: keller's mission to save the environment is all consuming. at chicobag, his company in northern california, even the chickens get in on the act. recycling employee garbage. >> they'll take care of this compost within a day. >> reporter: chicobag sells reusable bags that can fit in your pocket. it's keller's brain child. inspired when he visited this. the local landfill. >> nice cushion here. there's a bed frame. or a sprinkler. look a

city to ban plastic check out bags over four years ago. that ban only applied to supermarkets and to pharmacy chains, and the ordinance helped to reduce plastic bag litter in san francisco as you heard by 18% which was a great victory. it also reduced contamination in our collective recyclables and compost. although we do take great pride in being the first city to have banned plastic bags in the u.s. and are pleased with the impact that the original ordinance made, plastic bags continue to be a problem in san francisco. i would like to highlight a couple of those concerns. plastic bags cannot be recycled through our curb side or pickup program do the economics and are still the largest and most costly contamination. there by continuing to pose a threat and a real obstacle. and then finally plastic bags are continuing to be a threat to marine and wildlife. a 2010 study named san francisco's mission creek as one of the most plastic bag choked waterways in its annual trash top survey. as you also heard there's many other cities and countries

bags, and i should remind you, what plastic bags are necessary with the objective here -- why plastice necessary with the objective here. the decomposition of the bag takes a long time and is harmful to the environment. one can argue that a single plastic bag may not be harmful, but when you think of the tens of millions that cities like san francisco go through in city's large and small that contribute to the 102 billion consumption of bags per year that go into landfills, and they are not recyclable, then i think we all have something larger to do. for our ability to try to ban that at that tier puts us in pace with cities like santa fe and los angeles and the other incorporated areas this population amounts to about 1 million people. this puts us on pace with washington, d.c., who has now signed a fee, and that he has resulted in an 80% reduction of plastic bags used in metropolitan washington, d.c. a lot of this was lifted from ireland. ireland happened to be one of the first nations on this planet that decided to assign a bag of the, and part of my inspiration came from ireland,

american shoppers use an estimated 102 billion plastic bags every year. plastic bags are a significant source of litter in the san francisco bay, specifically. a study showed that approximately 25,000 plastic bags were removed from san francisco bay in just one single day. there are many other examples. as you may know, the city has a zero waste policy. as part of the plastic bag are very difficult to recycle and they contaminate san francisco's recycling and composting programs. they interfere with san francisco's official goal of zero waste by 2020. i want to give you a little history of how the problem has been addressed in san francisco. i mentioned the 2007 ordinance. i will tell you more about that in the 2010 revolution. as a result of supervisor mirkarimi's legislation, san francisco became the first american city to ban plastic bags from use at large grocery stores and pharmacies. all other san francisco stores or restaurants currently may still offer single use plastic bags. supervisor mirkarimi, the department of the environment, and others, ha

small, mind you, in comparison to those that dominate the plastics world and the monopoly on plastic bags. but it's also why the petrochemical industries work so hard to suppress laws like this from around the nation. many of the cities that are facing lawsuits to try to stem their ability to implement a bag ban or fee, the lead against those cities is against the plastic chemical council, because they do not want to see these other industries grow. so a lot of the showdown legally is from sort of that national vantage point. and it's time that they and we all wake up to see the social responsibility and that economic responsibility that we all have in terms of the consequences of what this bag use has amounted to, and that's what we're trying to get to the heart of. >> other commissioner's questions? >> just a comment. and i've been traveling. it's almost all over the world. the countries i visited, they also have the same policy, charging for bags. so i go everywhere with a bag. >> in the olympics, beijing was talking about -- i don't know how thorough or effective they've been, bu

there is the use of reusable plastic bags. we have seen these pop up in response to the previous ban on plastic bags. just a question about what we are seeing for that trend. >> thank you. i would like to thank supervisor mirkarimi for his leadership. i want to say that their strong outreach to the immigrant communities. we want to make sure that these businesses are up to speed on the intricacy of the new law. i appreciate how you of work with the golden gate association and the chamber in listening and i know that there are many recommendations that have been taken into consideration. >> any additional discussion? on the motion to amend, can we take that without objection? the motion to amend passes. the motion to continue

i heard them talking about the plastics. but plastic bricks. they're having a bad problem right now with plastics. they put this in and what happens? can you see what is going on in the area where we are living? our people are dying up there. i watched him die from working in that shipyard. this horrible death. please, clean up and do not procrastinate. they don't know what they are talking about. they do not live there and we do. >> supervisor -- worked to create amy's position, working with the epa to put this on the list and one of the authors of proposition t. we will focus on a couple of issues today. the proximity to the site and the landfill, compared to the other landfills. and if you look at the shoreline amphitheater, what you see is that this is no closer than 1 mile to any community neighborhood. and if you look at the landfill, the residential neighborhoods in berkeley. and what about the military base? on alameda, this is a residential neighborhood. this is a couple of miles. you have landfills in and around here, within 1,000 fee

san francisco's board of supervisors is looking to take the landmark ban on plastic bags to another level. it's the top story at 7:00. today's board meeting and is now in union scare to tell us about a new plan to charge for paper bags. >> that's right, you know, this time of year you see lots of bags around, especially during this holiday shopping season. well this ordinance passes, you can say good-bye to any bags plastic or paper for free. >> it's so common, you hardly notice, bags of all shapes and sizes carrying store purchases or take out food but today san francisco's supervisor introduced an ordinance to expand the 2007 plastic bag ban city wide and charge up to 25 cents per paper bag. >> the idea is paper nor plastic, we use your owner bag and that's exactly where most of europe is going. >> reporter: some super visors including scott weaner expressed concerns about bag fees. >> 25 cents for people on fixed incomes or low income can be i think a burden. >> reporter: the proposal would expand the ban to all re-stale stores and restaurant take out orders and charge customers 10 cen

has reduced plastic bag use by more than 80%. there is opposition.t passes today as expected a group called save the plastic bag coalition is expected to sue. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> the san francisco municipal transportation agency is considering a controversial idea to charge businesses a fee for any free parking spaces they provide. the san francisco examiner reports that local businesses would be charged a $1,000 annual fee for each spot in a free parking lot. transportation officials estimate there are 3,000 unpaid parking spots in the city, including those at the gallery, mall, grocery stores and other retail outlets. officials say the fee would generate 30 million dollars a year to reduce the agency's budget deficit. >>> marin reports managers at health care center in novato have called family and friends and residents telling them not to visit. nursing hope residents are being ordered to stay in -- nursing home residents are being ordered to stay in their rooms. 80 residents and staff have become ill. several cases were reported at ano

who's importing it. >> like these plastic animal toys. we're looking at this company to see if they improved their compliance. this was a great catch, we had a lead violation. >> investigators use a special device to test for lead and something that makes plastics pliable. >> this is equipment they didn't have in 2007. it allows them on the field test any toy right out of the box in about 30 seconds. >> the legal lead limit is 90 parts per million. in this is a handheld device we use to determine the chemical composition of toys. this toy animal is safe but this one failed. >> we're well over the legal limit for lead. we would go back to shipment and pull official samples and send them to the testing center. >> the goods will sit in quarantine while more tests are done back east. if results confirm the violation the entire shipment will be destroyed. >> the machine is used in los angeles and seattle but the other technology is at the port of oakland and the results are promising. recalls are down 75% since 2008. >> pretty amazing. >>> tur

plastic bags are banned from groceries and farm says. that could be expanded to retail stores and restaurants in the city. this from supervisor mercurini. >> it's common sense and time we take it into the the next level. >> it will hit new checkout lines. under proposal, bags that are allowed will cost you. 10 cents starting in july of next year. and this climbs by 2014. >> i can bring my own bags. >> he says when washington, d.c. started charging a fee, usage dropped by 81%. and this is not just grocery stores, but all retailers, owner of a clothing store has concerns. >> it becomes just another impedement to making a process easier one z makes it less friendly. >> the businesses will get to keep the fee, one reason the grocers association and chamber of commerce spoke in favor today. but an attorney representing plastics industry sued other cities and threatening to do so now unless there is a state environmental impact review. >> san francisco is basing this evidence on misinformation and exaggerations. >> it is scheduled to go to the

i heard them talking about the plastics. but plastic bricks. they're having a bad problem right now with plastics. they put this in and what they put this in and what happens?

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for plastic, so much for making it rain. you can throw it and watch it come down with paper and it's not happening. not that i could do it anyway. ashley morrison in new york, appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," a fresh crew for the international space station and unrest continues to grow in syria and neighboring countries are criticizing the syrian leader. >>> but first, scott pelley with a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >>> a vaccine that may not only treat cancer but prevent the disease from ever occurring. we will show you the ground-breaking treatment that is targeting cancer andpatientsn the "cbs evening news." twizzlers. the twist you can't resist. ♪ that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. i had[ designer ]eeling enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [

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