To ban or not to ban? That is the plastic bag question. On Feb. 11, Issaquah voters will decide on whether to keep the current ordinance or to scrap it altogether. “I felt like it was a good policy,” 5th District State Sen. Mark Mullet, the former City Issaquah Councilman who originally championed the ordinance, said. “I figured if we can wipe out tens of millions of plastic bags from the city, it’s all worth the headache.” When the City Council passed the plastic bag ban in June 2012, it did not take long for a pocket of resistance to grow. Volunteer organization Save Our Choice began collecting signatures to end the ban even before the March 2013 start of the ordinance. By the end of the year, it had secured enough signatures to earn King County’s approval to send the issue to voters.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:19:34 +0000
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