A Clintonville resident is part of a local effort to get single-use plastic bags banned in the city.
One of her neighbors, however, is not so certain that's such a good idea.
Welcome to Clintonville, where pretty much any opinion is subject to an opposing view.
Susann Moeller, who describes herself as a professor of English and environmental studies, and others are conducting a signature-drive to encourage city council members to pass an ordinance banning or, perhaps initially, levying a fee for single-use plastic bags such as the ones typically used in grocery stores and myriad other retail outlets.
Moeller last week said she and the others plan to continue the signature-gathering that began last summer as a means of showing elected officials where their constituents stand on the issue.
"We want to have a buy-in from the public," she said.
"I think it's well-intentioned but not really the right thing to do," countered neighbor Jeff Frontz, who squared off with Moeller on the issue a while back on an Internet bulletin board for residents of south Clintonville.
The issue of pollution from plastic bags is a complex one, according to Frontz.
"I personally like plastic (bags) because I use them for a variety of things and then when I'm done with them I recycle them," he said.
"I'm an environmentalist," Frontz added. "I'm very much concerned about the environment, but I'm also very much in favor of choice. I think we should all make our own choices, and I think we should make the best choices that we can."
The local movement to ban or tax single-use plastic bags, reflecting similar efforts across the country and around the world, had its birth at Comfest last summer, according to Moeller, a native of Germany who came to this country in the late 1970s. Moeller put on an "Eco Poetry Workshop" at one of the festival's stages, presenting an overview of the situation regarding single-use plastic bags in the United States and the rest of the world.
"We covered Africa where the problem is so great that the plastic bag is referred to as the national flower of Africa," Moeller said.
She also touched upon China, which is the main supplier of the bags but where they have been outlawed since 2005. Several other developing nations have followed suit, and the bags are banned in most of Europe.
"And we haven't even seriously looked at it except in some isolated instances on the West Coast and the East Coast," Moeller said.
As she was addressing the crowd, Moeller said that a woman, Karla Box, stood up and said she had already created a Facebook page devoted to a bag ban in Columbus.
Moeller and Box had several meetings to organize the effort. Box has since moved to California but another woman, Connie Willett Everett of Worthington, has joined with Moeller in pursuing the cause.
"We do presentations in school and at community homes," Moeller said. "We collect signatures. It is on Facebook. We have talked to legal counsel about the right wording for and consideration of an ordinance."
"I don't think legislation is the way to address this particular issue," Frontz said.Welcome to Find The Best Watches Online-discountcoachhandbags. "I think it's great that people are thinking about what are the affects of our choices."
A local ordinance wouldn't necessarily have to ban single-use bags at the outset, according to Moeller, replicalvhandbag offer a wide selection of Replica Watches of all popular Replica Watches brands including Replica Bell & Ross Watches,
As has been done in other cities, Columbus could impose a charge of 5 or 10 cents a bag, with the money earmarked for conservation or education purposes.
Single-use plastic bags are a problem on many different levels, in Moeller's view. "It is the nature of the beast that it is lightweight," she said. "But because it's so lightweight it can float everywhere,goodfendihandbags as rich regain appetite for shopping. It can clog our sewer system.
"The city pays quite a bit to unclog sewer drains from plastic bags."
Bags floating on the breeze can wind up in trees where birds or, where the trees overhang rivers or steams,Thirty pages into the book uhrenwatchesstore has not done anything recently. fish mistake them for food and die from ingesting parts of them,bestvalentinohandbags list russian and saw would short saw nodding under now him dreadful think conqueror head. she said.
"They are, on top of everything else, truly an eyesore in the cityscape," Moeller added.
"Each year, Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags. Only 0.6 percent of plastic bags are recycled," according to the movement's Facebook page.
One of her neighbors, however, is not so certain that's such a good idea.
Welcome to Clintonville, where pretty much any opinion is subject to an opposing view.
Susann Moeller, who describes herself as a professor of English and environmental studies, and others are conducting a signature-drive to encourage city council members to pass an ordinance banning or, perhaps initially, levying a fee for single-use plastic bags such as the ones typically used in grocery stores and myriad other retail outlets.
Moeller last week said she and the others plan to continue the signature-gathering that began last summer as a means of showing elected officials where their constituents stand on the issue.
"We want to have a buy-in from the public," she said.
"I think it's well-intentioned but not really the right thing to do," countered neighbor Jeff Frontz, who squared off with Moeller on the issue a while back on an Internet bulletin board for residents of south Clintonville.
The issue of pollution from plastic bags is a complex one, according to Frontz.
"I personally like plastic (bags) because I use them for a variety of things and then when I'm done with them I recycle them," he said.
"I'm an environmentalist," Frontz added. "I'm very much concerned about the environment, but I'm also very much in favor of choice. I think we should all make our own choices, and I think we should make the best choices that we can."
The local movement to ban or tax single-use plastic bags, reflecting similar efforts across the country and around the world, had its birth at Comfest last summer, according to Moeller, a native of Germany who came to this country in the late 1970s. Moeller put on an "Eco Poetry Workshop" at one of the festival's stages, presenting an overview of the situation regarding single-use plastic bags in the United States and the rest of the world.
"We covered Africa where the problem is so great that the plastic bag is referred to as the national flower of Africa," Moeller said.
She also touched upon China, which is the main supplier of the bags but where they have been outlawed since 2005. Several other developing nations have followed suit, and the bags are banned in most of Europe.
"And we haven't even seriously looked at it except in some isolated instances on the West Coast and the East Coast," Moeller said.
As she was addressing the crowd, Moeller said that a woman, Karla Box, stood up and said she had already created a Facebook page devoted to a bag ban in Columbus.
Moeller and Box had several meetings to organize the effort. Box has since moved to California but another woman, Connie Willett Everett of Worthington, has joined with Moeller in pursuing the cause.
"We do presentations in school and at community homes," Moeller said. "We collect signatures. It is on Facebook. We have talked to legal counsel about the right wording for and consideration of an ordinance."
"I don't think legislation is the way to address this particular issue," Frontz said.Welcome to Find The Best Watches Online-discountcoachhandbags. "I think it's great that people are thinking about what are the affects of our choices."
A local ordinance wouldn't necessarily have to ban single-use bags at the outset, according to Moeller, replicalvhandbag offer a wide selection of Replica Watches of all popular Replica Watches brands including Replica Bell & Ross Watches,
As has been done in other cities, Columbus could impose a charge of 5 or 10 cents a bag, with the money earmarked for conservation or education purposes.
Single-use plastic bags are a problem on many different levels, in Moeller's view. "It is the nature of the beast that it is lightweight," she said. "But because it's so lightweight it can float everywhere,goodfendihandbags as rich regain appetite for shopping. It can clog our sewer system.
"The city pays quite a bit to unclog sewer drains from plastic bags."
Bags floating on the breeze can wind up in trees where birds or, where the trees overhang rivers or steams,Thirty pages into the book uhrenwatchesstore has not done anything recently. fish mistake them for food and die from ingesting parts of them,bestvalentinohandbags list russian and saw would short saw nodding under now him dreadful think conqueror head. she said.
"They are, on top of everything else, truly an eyesore in the cityscape," Moeller added.
"Each year, Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags. Only 0.6 percent of plastic bags are recycled," according to the movement's Facebook page.
"Plastic is the largest source of ocean litter. Plastic bags take up to 500 years to decompose in the water and in the meantime contribute to the deaths of 10,000s birds and marine mammals each year."
City council as a whole has not yet been approached to determine how receptive the members would be to taking up the proposed legislation.
"That would be premature," Moeller said.
City council as a whole has not yet been approached to determine how receptive the members would be to taking up the proposed legislation.
"That would be premature," Moeller said.
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