the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, As a reminder, the Village of Ridgewood’s ban on single use plastic bags took effect on January 1, 2020. All supermarkets, restaurants, street fairs and farmer’s markets are prohibited from handing out single use plastic bags. Plastic bags used for garbage, pet waste, prescriptions, dry cleaning, newspapers, as well as those used to contain loose meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, bulk items and bakery goods are exempt from this ban. We encourage Ridgewood residents to bring their own reusable shopping bags with them and thank you for helping us to preserve the environment.
Use this opportunity as a diet incentive. Buy only the foods that are most nutritious and the sundry items you need. That is, until people order more food items online and put the $$$ in Amazon’s pocket than their local grocer. More unintended consequences of feel-good laws.
We are so stupid.
Collective stupidity in the form of legislative virtue signaling. This is quite regrettable and should be undone forthwith. Watch the Kings in Ridgewood bleed business to the Kings in Midland Park–an easy substitution for customers who prefer the use of plastic bags to carry their groceries that have been produced through the meritorious use of technology so as to constitute a salutary combination of lightness in weight, minimum material volume and thickness, and remarkable strength. Not that radical progressive luddites care about such things.
We have an obscene number of idiots in this town. They distinctively pick feel good causes that they don’t even understand and become part of the big herd. These people are the same ones who scream “on behalf” of the environment yet they decide that eliminating plastic bags that most people reuse for trash and garbage at home is better than forcing people to buy the other plastic bags from the shelves. Most importantly these m0rons don’t understand that making more paper bags means cutting more trees. Eliminating trees is much more harmful to the environment and “global warming” than eliminating some plastic bags. Hypocrits.
Hey “Deer”in the headlights, trees are not being eliminated. Forests are highly managed and more trees are planted than cut down. It’s called a renewable resource and Kraft bags are an easy recycle into new kraft for packaging. Got it Karen??
Who cares give us all a paper bag like years ago.
I for one plan on a civil discourse here and will simply tell the village council to Fuck right Off.
Thank you.
Hey Hey Hey, according to the New York Times, paper bags are WORSE than plastic, because trees are cut down for them. Not special trees in so-called manageable forests, but trees needed for the life of you and me.
Now, hey hey hey , on the west coast like in Seattle residents save their food garbage and it is picked by the town and composted.
But hey hey hey, the pilot program to do that in Ridgewood and Fairlawn couldn’t get a grant to try the composting, so the idea was abandoned here in Ridgewood.
Now, hey hey hey, little me, thinks it is more important for the town to pay for a composting program out the town budget, and not pay for a garage, or pay to chop down trees at Schedler and build a ball field and parking etc which costs millions and council spent a fortune on more parking at train station. Because saving the environment is more important. Hey Hey HEY. The town council and so-called Green Team, REAC environmental committees here DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT. THEY are PHONY. So is the council. First Knudsen was sayin there should not be a parking garage because of pollution. She said cars emit dangerous pollution called “particulates.” Then she changed her mind and is putting in a garage. So, whaaaat haaapened to the dangerous particulates. Let us demand that the parking garage be halted and a program to do composting be started NOW, hey HEY HEY.
Roger Reed, you certainly sound like a scientist. Are you related to Al Gore by the way?
Deer – Ridgewood cuts down tons of trees or lets them die by themselves in the tree wells. If you believe the hype that it impacts our climate, next time you might want to show up at a village meeting to express your thoughts. or just continue to hide behind the Blob
@taxpayer. I am more aware than anyone else about trees being cut in RW. I am crazy about nature and trees and I shiver anytime I see a Downes truck speeding up around town. Expressing my thoughts in front of VC would be humiliating because I know they do not give a sh!t about my thoughts and concerns. They will do their thing regardless my opinions and feelings. Hundreds of people expressed their opposition to high density housing and yet the 3 a.holes went ahead and signed RW demise. My beef is with the “woke” herd that jumps with both feet into any campaign that mentions “climate”, “environment” etc. without thinking about the real costs of them. Just like the staircase at library or performing arts and so many more.
Ridgewood cuts down trees that become a safety hazzard for people. Or like in the case of Schedler they should not be cut down. Every acre of woodlands with trees helps the environment and aides in providing clean air for you and me. Hey, if you do not believe the NYT and Wash Post , good luck to you.
Trees do not belong in trees wells. They will always die premature.