{"id":17429,"date":"2013-02-05T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17429"},"modified":"2013-02-05T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:13:15","slug":"sometimes-going-green-has-a-high-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17429","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Going Green Has A High Price Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/02\/put-a-bag-over-it.php\">Power Line<\/a> posted an article today about the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Unintended consequences\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unintended_consequences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">unintended consequences<\/a> in cities and counties that have banned <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Plastic bag\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plastic_bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">plastic bags<\/a> in supermarkets. It seems that the use of cloth bags has caused some unintended problems.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2196481##\">U. of Penn. Inst for Law &amp; Econ Research Paper 13-2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Francisco\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=37.7793,-122.4192 (San%20Francisco)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">San Francisco County<\/a> was the first major US jurisdiction to enact such a regulation, implementing a ban in 2007. There is evidence, however, that reusable <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Shopping bag\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shopping_bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">grocery bags<\/a>, a common substitute for plastic bags, contain potentially harmful bacteria. We examine <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Emergency department\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emergency_department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">emergency room<\/a> admissions related to these bacteria in the wake of the San Francisco ban. We find that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ER\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/ER\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"hulu\">ER<\/a> visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also quotes an article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-02-04\/the-disgusting-consequences-of-liberal-plastic-bag-bans.html\">Bloomberg.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Klick and Wright estimate that the San Francisco ban results in a 46 percent increase in deaths from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Foodborne illness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Foodborne_illness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">foodborne illnesses<\/a>, or 5.5 more of them each year. They then run through a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cost\u2013benefit analysis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cost%E2%80%93benefit_analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">cost-benefit analysis<\/a> employing the same estimate of the value of a human life that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Environmental Protection Agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> uses when evaluating regulations that are supposed to save lives. They conclude that the anti-plastic-bag policies can\u2019t pass the test &#8212; and that\u2019s before counting the higher health-care costs they generate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back to the drawing board&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=1b348119-98d3-4c38-813e-c38bc13a6fac\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Hayward at Power Line posted an article today about the unintended consequences in cities and counties that have banned plastic bags in supermarkets. It seems that the use of cloth bags has caused some unintended problems. The article quotes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=17429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4942,4763,4940,4941,4938,1431,4939,104],"class_list":["post-17429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cost-benefit-analysis","tag-emergency-department","tag-er-tv-series","tag-foodborne-illness","tag-plastic-bag","tag-san-francisco","tag-shopping-bag","tag-united-states-environmental-protection-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17432,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions\/17432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}