Kick the Bag Habit! Sign the Petition

Californians use an estimated 19 billion plastic bags per year. Only five percent of these are recycled. Many more find their way to our creeks, Bay and ocean where they entangle, suffocate and kill seals, birds, sea turtles and other marine life.

Please sign the petition today supporting a single-use bag fee.

Your action will help your community make the switch to re-useable grocery bags and keep plastic bags out of the Bay. A fee on single-use bags that consumers see itemized on their bill is a proven way to get people to switch to re-usable bags. In Ireland, a minor 33 cent fee on plastic bags reduced their use by almost 95 percent!

We'll deliver this petition to your elected officials and ask them to consider a fee on single-use bags in 2009.