Rep. Beverly Boswell has introduced an amendment to her bag-ban repeal bill which she says will address the concerns of those who feel the bags may harm wildlife. Bags used on the Outer Banks will now have to feature a warning “Not fit for human or animal consumption” printed on both sides.
Rep. Boswell said she got the idea from her own childhood experiences of playing with plastic bags.
“Oh sugar, growing up, we used to always play with them big plastic bags they’d put over your clothes when they come from the dry cleaners,” Rep. Boswell stated. “Sometimes I’d leave it on too long and turn a little blue. Anyway, then one day they started putting that warning about suffocation on those bags and my momma said ‘No more!. You can’t play with them bags no more.’ And we didn’t and nobody died ever again in the whole wide world from a plastic bag.”
The amendment requires the warning use minimum 12 point font and include a Spanish translation on at least one side of the bag. According to Boswell this is for the mackerel here legally, not the illegal ones.