{"id":1888,"date":"2013-03-29T03:50:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2013-03-29T03:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:50:33","slug":"news-briefopinion-bag-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/news-briefopinion-bag-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief\/Opinion- Bag Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos by Keri Gabriele, Photographer<\/p>\n

Austin’s bag ban ordinance went into effect March 1, 2013. Stores can no longer give out single use plastic bags. The ban is meant to safeguard the environment. Accent asked students how the ban has affected their shopping experiences.<\/p>\n

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“We live in Kyle, so they’re still using plastic bags. We haven’t done any shopping in Austin yet to notice a difference.” — Ana Valdez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Pablo<\/a>
“It hasn’t affected my shopping at all, because I used reusable bags before. So it hasn’t changed anything.” — Pablo Gomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Allyson<\/a>
“I forgot my bags and had about $200 worth of groceries. The cashier said ‘Either put it all in the basket to take to your car or buy the bags.’ I don’t mind; I think it’s good.” — Allyson Crossley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Gabby<\/a>
“It’s annoying because I forget the bags, and then you have to pay for the bags!” — Gabby Sanchez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Laura<\/a>
“I actually don’t live in Austin, so not really yet.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Photos by Keri Gabriele, Photographer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[106,134,358,460,573],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-bag-ban","tag-campus-viewpoint","tag-keri-gabriele","tag-opinion-2","tag-student-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}