With budget bills that are scheduled to be voted on in Albany this Monday, New York is set to become the second state after California to issue a ban on single-use plastic bags.
Baby steps, we know. Bags should be outlawed across the universe — and New York will allow some exceptions, like for restaurant takeout. But it still has us Empire Staters cheering, because it's a nudge in the right direction.
After all, what's wrong with good old paper? It's recyclable, and if our fellow shoppers want to ask for paper over plastic, they can chip in a nickel a bag and help support New York's Environmental Protection Fund. So it is all good.
We hope this new law — which is a direct result of the state legislature flipping Democratic last November — will give AOC and the other Gen Zers who are freaked out about the uninhabitable planet they're going to inherit reason to smile for at least a minute or two. We cats are right there with them. With our nine lives, we'll be around a lot longer than Donald Drumpf, Mitch McConnell and all the other Republicans who block and destroy sensible environmental laws. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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