Anchorage Bag Ban. Anchorage this week became the latest city to ban disposable plastic shopping bagsThe ban approved by the city Assembly on Tuesday night takes effect in March 2019. Retailers have until March 1 2019 to phase out all forms of plastic bags after which they will be allowed to sell single-use bags or any other form of non-plastic carry bag for a surcharge not to exceed 50 cents.
The Anchorage Assembly was quick to jump on the anti-bag bandwagon last year. Though repealing Anchorages bag ban in its entirety and allowing stores to provide plastic bags at no cost is the ideal solution removing the burdensome requirement that stores charge at least 10 cents per bag helps grocery stores be competitive and protect the health of their customers. Instead shoppers must bring their own bags or they may purchase paper bags from some retailers at a minimum cost of 010 per bag and up to 050 per transaction.
15 Anchorage retailers can no longer provide plastic bags to their customers.
The plastic bag pile to the left is what one year of not throwing away bags amounted to for one person. Within the Municipality of Anchorage the bag. NASALauren Harnett Across Anchorage theres some uncertainty about what will happen when the new ban on plastic bags go into effect on Sept. The plastic bag pile to the left is what one year of not throwing away bags amounted to for one person.
