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Plastic shopping bags, a staple of the American retail experience for a half-century, may be going the way of lead paint and other banned products.

Los Angeles, the second most-populous U.S. city, this week became the largest American metropolis to curb use of the ubiquitous bags out of concern that they clog waterways, kill marine life and litter public places. An alderman in Chicago has introduced a similar measure, and a councilman in New York said he plans to follow suit.

The city of 3.9 million uses more than 2 billion plastic carryout bags a year, with most ending up as litter or in landfills, according to a Sanitation Bureau report. Officials in all three cities say their goal is a coast-to-coast ban on the bags, which some compare to the polystyrene foam sandwich containers that McDonald’s Corp. phased out in the 1990s.

“It does send a message that the second- and third-largest cities in the country are going to act,” said Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno, author of that city’s proposal. “Local officials are dealing with this because they have to deal with the plastic bags on the sidewalks and in the waterways.”

The plastic-bag industry is fighting the bans. The American Progressive Bag Alliance, its lobbying arm, said ordinances like Los Angeles’s threaten a business that employs 30,800 people in 349 communities that has embraced recycling and other measures to cut pollution.

“Plastic bags account for four-tenths of 1 percent of the solid-waste stream,” said Mark Daniels, chairman of the alliance and an executive at Hartsville, South Carolina-based manufacturer Hilex Poly Co. “For environmentalists to state that plastic bags are filling up our landfills is false; it’s mythical.”

Los Angeles stores with annual gross sales of $2 million, or more than 10,000 square feet of retail space, have until Jan.Welcome to order your own Michael Kors Monogram on sale with 100% guarantee quality and low price.Michael Kors bags outlet are on sale,order now! 1 to use up their stock of plastic bags; the deadline for smaller stores is July 1, 2014. Merchants may offer paper bags at a charge of 10 cents each, with proceeds going to the stores. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is scheduled to sign the legislation.

The island of Nantucket, Mass., has banned plastic shopping bags since the early 1990s, and Westport, Conn.; San Francisco; Seattle; Brownsville, Texas; and Aspen, Colorado also have outlawed the sacks, according to the nonprofit PlasticBagLaws.org, which supports the efforts. Los Angeles County adopted an ordinance in 2010 to ban plastic bags in unincorporated areas, which have more than 1 million residents, and to require stores to charge 10 cents per paper bag.Shop this season's new prada bags now.

At a Ralphs grocery store, owned by Kroger Co.,The mk handbags will provide you cheap but high-quality products. in the unincorporated seaside community of Marina del Rey, Calif., customers packed groceries in paper bags, reusable canvas and plastic sacks Wednesday.

John Anagnous, a 25-year-old precious-metals seller who toted his groceries to his car in three paper bags, called the ban an example of government overreach.

“This is an easy buck for the grocery chains, to be honest with you,” Anagnous said “I understand being environmentally friendly, but I find plastic bags really convenient. I find it ridiculous that they want to tell us what we can do.”

Neil Huxley, a 38-year-old creative director, lugged two packages of toilet tissue – made of recycled paper – to his car without bags. He said he supports policies against one-time- use containers and that the ban has nudged him to bring reusable bags to the store.

“This is the 21st century,” he said. “We should be concerned about the environment.”

Chicago’s plan, which would take effect four months after adoption, may come up for a vote this summer, Moreno said. It may allow stores to charge for paper bags and would require them to stock reusable bags, he said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel “will work with members of City Council to reach a consensus on this issue,I can't believe I ever shopped for Michael Kors New Arrival elsewhere.” spokesman Tom Alexander said.

The Illinois Retail Merchants Association is opposing Chicago’s measure, said Tanya Triche, the group’s vice president and general counsel. She said plastic bags cost retailers about 3 cents each, compared with about 9 cents for paper ones.

“It really raises the costs for merchants,” she said.In our Michael Kors handbags outlet shop, cheap Michael Kors Bags 2013 hot sale at an affordable price. “In this fragile economy — and Chicago’s is more fragile than most — we don’t think this is the time to be raising costs on businesses.”

In New York, Councilman Brad Lander of Brooklyn said he plans to introduce a measure this year to outlaw plastic bags, though he hasn’t worked out details.

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