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As Andrew Dobbs (Central Texas program director for TCE) explains it, the idea here is to put public pressure on retailers now that they have no legal obligation to keep plastic bags out of their stores.

School shootings in the US reached a 20-year high in 2021, with 93 school shootings reported according to federal data cited in a report by the National Center for Education Statistics. Austin’s bag ban went into effect in 2013 and was aimed at reducing pollution and helping the city reach its own zero waste goals. (Austin wants to be diverting 90 percent of its waste from the landfill by 2040).Send a tweet or post on Facebook sharing your feelings about the plastic bag ban. Tag local retailers in the process. Some students have to pass through metal detectors when they get to school every morning, and many around the nation undergo active-shooter training.

After the Supreme Court Ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to all of the Texas cities with bag bans saying that they are no longer legal or enforceable.In the end, the case ended up coming down to arguments over what exactly “solid waste management purposes” means. When does a plastic bag become trash? Is it trash as soon as it enters the customer’s hands? In other words, it was all about semantics. In response to the ruling, Austin’s lone conservative City Council Member, Ellen Troxclair, posted on Facebook, “The ban is another example of government micro-managing our lives with detrimental unintended consequences…I’m glad to hear of the court’s ruling and hope it means that we will have one less regulation in Austin soon!” key takeaways from the Uvalde shooting report and video revealing failures in law enforcement response Two years later, the city released a study on the how the bag ban was doing. The study pointed to some positives of the ban (the number of single-use plastic bags appeared to decreased dramatically, helping to reduce pollution in our local waterways, parks, etc), as well as some unintended consequences/areas that needed improvement (a big jump in reusable plastic bags, like the ones sold at H-E-B, being sent to the landfill/local recycling centers).

In light of the Texas Supreme Court’s decision, this local vs. state debate will likely play out in the upcoming 2019 legislative session as well, as environmental organizations fight to get the Legislature to change the law and allow cities to pass plastic bag bans (if they want them). This effort will also be closely tied to one being led by Environment Texas to overturn the state’s longstanding rule against cities passing styrofoam bans. An officer walks outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. - An 18-year-old gunman killed 14 children and a teacher at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, according to the state's governor, in the nation's deadliest school shooting in years. (Photo by allison dinner / AFP) (Photo by ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images) Allison Dinner/AFP/Getty Images The Southside Independent School District in San Antonio, the Harper Independent School District, about 90 miles northwest of San Antonio, and Ingleside Independent School District near Corpus Christi all made similar decisions last month.