When we can completely stop gouging and stealing un-renewable resources from the planet, then we might be on the right path to share the ‘sustainable’ nature with it all. But for GREED, we would already be there with Tesla’s free energy for all. It takes oil to make plastic. Get rid of oil dependency … get rid of plastic garbage altogether. Lever soap puts plastic granules in the bar soap to scrub your skin better, and now the ocean floor is filled with plastic granules that bring death to the eco-system. We have scrubbed ourselves to death people. http://www.takepart.com/oceans/plastic-pollution

You’re right Frank … cigarette butts are disgusting all over the ground, and in the water, smelling the smoke and sick stale ashtrays, a smoker is most inconsiderate wherever he/she decides to flick his/her butt, but, cigarette smoking is a one on one killer (unless its second hand), whereas plastic kills the environment we depend on to survive.

The city council, whether they realize it or not are signed into the UN’s Agenda 21. Thank you Mr. Hornaday for making Homer a “real” test site for easy pickings. You put us on the “test pilot” list. “In March, Homer joined the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), as one of more than 700 local governments participating in the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign. Later, Homer accepted an invitation to participate in the pilot phase of ICLEI’s Climate Resilient Communities program, which focuses on adaptation to climate change” Read it for yourself.

Did you take money for doing this deed to the rest of us … without public understanding or vote? Plastic bags are just the first deployment for control … but I think we all know, no matter how much money we spend on a “task force” no one can control Mother Nature, right?
http://www.cityofhomer-ak.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/climate_action_plan.pdf

We need to recall this entire city council, fire Walt Wrede and take a new look at our finances. This is our town, not their town. This city gets all kinds of money, from the cruise ship fees to the docking fees to the absurd amount they collect in sales tax….we could have such an awesome town with all that money, community center, community garden/heated winter greenhouse, city center with lighted ice skating like Anchorage…seriously there is a lot of money going through the city’s hands right now, and we the people aren’t getting any of it. Chamber of Commerce wants to double their money, no problem. But when citizens went to the council to discuss a community center for teenagers to use, they immediately said
‘no we don’t have the money for that!’ So they take all our sales tax money, all the money from dock fees and cruise ships, to give back to business, but we can’t use any for the people that live here? They gave $15,000 to someone(did it really cost that much?) to determine the HERC building isn’t worth fixing. We could have had a volunteer do that, just as we could have volunteers in the community fix up the entire building, but the city council figured throwing money at one person to tell us ‘no way’ was good enough, They suck. and we shouldn’t put up with this BS!

This city council is seriously corrupt, and this stupid bag issue is just a distraction to pretend they are doing something. Then they will undo it, and we will all go ‘wow, the city council works for us’ They think we are stupid Homerites.