Single-use plastic bags are already banned in the city. A city-commissioned study found the 2021 ban effectively reduced plastic bag use but significantly drove up paper bag use.\n<\/p>\n
The new law requires retail establishments in the city to charge customers a 10-cent fee for any single-use bag provided at the point of sale. The fee will not apply to bags used for take-out, drive-through orders, deliveries or bags that enclose utensils or condiments. The new law also clarifies that establishments cannot provide thicker single-use plastic bags.\n<\/p>\n
The mandatory fee takes effect in 60 days, according to the text of the bill that passed Council.\n<\/p>\n
Former Mayor Jim Kenney pocket vetoed a similar bill at the end of his term.<\/a> A fee was struck from the original plastic bag ban over concerns from then-Councilmember Maria Qui\u00f1ones-S\u00e1nchez that it would amount to a regressive tax, which disproportionately burdens low-income residents.\u00a0<\/a>\n <\/p>\n If Parker had vetoed the bill, it\u2019s unclear whether Council would have overridden that veto. It takes 12 votes to override a mayor\u2019s veto, and the bag fee bill only received 10 votes when it passed Council late last month.\n<\/p>\n Two council members were absent during that vote. One, at-large Councilmember Kendra Brooks, supports the bag fee bill. The other, at-large Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson, had not said how she would vote.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Single-use plastic bags are already banned in the city. A city-commissioned study found the 2021 ban effectively reduced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2312,5206],"class_list":["post-33243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-planphilly","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}