{"id":1313006,"date":"2019-07-30T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=985180"},"modified":"2019-07-30T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:35:12","slug":"some-carbondale-stores-balk-at-expanded-bag-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/some-carbondale-stores-balk-at-expanded-bag-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Carbondale stores balk at expanded bag ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carbondale is moving toward expanding the plastic bag ban to several retail stores, but several businesses are worried about the negative impacts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hear from a lot of people that [the bag ban] is the reason they don\u2019t shop in Carbondale,\u201d said Don Boos, owner of the Roaring Fork Co-op in Carbondale.<\/p>\n

Boos, whose store would be affected if the expanded bag ban is passed, said he supports efforts to be environmentally friendly. But wishes there had been more time to develop a less-disruptive solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, I want to do what\u2019s environmentally right, but we have to have a solution to take care of the customers that come in without penalizing them,\u201d Boos said.<\/p>\n

The Carbondale Board of Trustees on July 23 advanced an amendment<\/a> to the current bag ban, which applies only to the City Market, to include all retail stores of more than 9,000 square feet (SF).<\/p>\n

The ordinance bans plastic take-out bags (not small in-store bags for vegetables, nuts and bolts, etc.), and places a 20-cent charge on paper bags.<\/p>\n

Trustees are scheduled to vote on the final ordinance at their next scheduled regular meeting, on Aug. 13.<\/p>\n

The town\u2019s environmental board contacted the stores that might be affected by the ban leading up to the July 23 meeting, and said only one store, NAPA Auto Parts, was strongly opposed.<\/p>\n

Boos said he was unaware that anyone had contacted the Co-op about the expanded ban, and wished the town had communicated better.<\/p>\n

Proponents of the expanded ban say that expanding the bag ban, which went into effect in 2012, was always in the plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe early intention of that ban was that it would be applicable to all businesses in Carbondale. So it\u2019s a little challenging to think that people are surprised by it when it\u2019s been a discussion point for a very long time,\u201d said Carbondale Trustee Heather Henry.<\/p>\n

The bag ban \u201cin and of itself isn\u2019t going to make a big reduction in the plastic poisoning of our earth,\u201d but it would be a step in the right direction, Environmental Board member and former trustee Frosty Merriott said in a previous interview.<\/p>\n

The 9,000 SF stipulation in the proposed bag ban \u2014 a change from the current ordinance \u2014 excludes NAPA, which is 8,000 SF and the most vocal opponent of the ban.<\/p>\n

But the e-board still contacted NAPA store owner Ron Friemel on the day of the ban, in case the trustees wanted to keep the 3,500 SF requirements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to locally owned stores, there\u2019s a greater cost of doing business for all of us,\u201d Friemel said.<\/p>\n

Friemel also said the town was moving haphazardly in imposing the ban, without looking at other options.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the city is going to pass these ordinances, they really should find a solution for all the stores in town,\u201d Friemel said.<\/p>\n

He suggested moving to biodegradable bags, and potentially creating a co-op of local businesses to purchase the bags in bulk.<\/p>\n

The other stores that would be affected are generally ready to implement the ban. Sopris Liqour and Wine already uses paper bags and doesn\u2019t offer plastic. ACE Hardware, right next to City Market, has been working on shifting to reusable bags for some time, and plans to do a bag giveaway in August to celebrate the shift to being a bag-less store.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been ready to transfer over for some time. We\u2019re just getting rid of the bag stock we\u2019ve had,\u201d ACE store Manager Anthony Apodaca said.<\/p>\n

tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plastic shopping bags in car trunk.Shutterstock Carbondale is moving toward expanding the plastic bag ban to several retail stores, but several businesses are worried about the negative impacts. \u201cI hear from a lot of people that [the bag ban] is the reason they don\u2019t shop in Carbondale,\u201d said Don Boos, owner of the Roaring Fork […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1313006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 13:40:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}