Appeals Court Upholds San Francisco’s Plastic Bag Ban

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/12/12/appeals-court-upholds-san-franciscos-plastic-bag-ban/

The 2012 law, an expansion of an earlier measure, prohibits most single-use plastic checkout bags and requires stores to charge 10 cents for paper or compostable plastic bags.

The ordinance was upheld Tuesday by a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeal in San Francisco. The court ruled on a challenge by the Los-Angeles-based Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a manufacturers’ association that has been battling plastic bag laws around the state.