Plastic shoppng bags banned from today

[CanadianChick]

Stores in Montreal giving customers plastic bags will get a major fine starting today, read it here.

So, how much will flouting the rules cost you?

The bylaw allows the city to levy hefty fines against businesses caught contravening the rule.

On a first offence, individual retailers can receive a fine between $200 and $1,000, and subsequent offences will cost them from $300 to $2,000.

A larger corporation that's caught breaking the rules can be fined even more, from $400 to $4,000.

City employees can inspect any retail store across Montreal to make sure it's complying with the ban, the bylaw reads.

Anyone that interferes with those inspections can also be found to be violating the new rules.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... -1.4691044

[TheButcher]

Another politically correct law that will hardly affect the environment in a positive way.

[T.B.W]

Good they are terrible for land fills.

[dom_trev]

How about plastic containers, are they next to be banned?

[jag]

Lets think long term for the coming generations and leave the planet as best as we can without ruining it for them.

[DeSexGuide]

I take my shopping bags with me, I try do my part to save the earth.

[adultdude]

Like this is going to make a major difference to the crap we put in the oceans and ground

[bestfreeporn]

You know how many millions of plastic bags get thrown out each day, it is a good idea to stop the pollution.

[misterporn]

Simply a dumb idea, everything else comes wrapped in plastic.