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    Plastic Bag Banter

    Dallas City Council gets ready to vote on plastic bag ban

    Claire St. Amant
    Mar 24, 2014 | 2:58 pm

    Dallas could become the next Texas city to regulate single-use plastic bags. On Wednesday, March 26, the City Council will vote on an ordinance that would ban single-use carryout bags at city facilities and impose a fee on such bags at businesses.

    A Dallas plastic bag ban has been debated since 2008, but council member Dwaine Caraway gave the issue a boost in June 2013 at a meeting of the city's Quality of Life Committee. Caraway's actions have resulted in a fresh ordinance that comes at no cost to the city.

    Customer fees for plastic bags will range from 10 cents per bag to $1 per transaction, and business will be allowed to pocket up to 50 percent of the proceeds.

    In addition to imposing a fee for customers opting to use plastic bags, the ordinance establishes requirements for reusable bags and makes businesses explain the program via signage. Customer fees for bags will range from 10 cents per bag to $1 per transaction, and business will be allowed to pocket up to 50 percent of the proceeds; the other 50 percent will go to the city.

    "The improper disposal of single-use carryout bags has a negative impact on the environment by contributing to unsightly ugliness on the streets, sidewalks, trees, bushes, and vacant lots that is detrimental to the quality of life of residents, the property values of homeowners, and the tourism industry," the ordinance reads. "Single-use carryout bags have significant environmental impacts each year, requiring hundreds of volunteer hours to remove single-use carryout bags from trees, lots, bushes, and roadways."

    Of course, not everyone is happy with the proposed parameters of the so-called bag ban. In addition to opposition from the plastic industry and many grocery store chains, the ordinance isn't entirely pleasing to environmentalists.

    Zac Trahan with the Texas Campaign for the Environment worries the financial incentive could actually cause stores to push more bags. "Retailers should be encouraged and incentivized to stop distributing single-use bags," he says. "That's the whole point."

    To offset administrative costs associated with the new bag policy, Trahan suggests stores keep only 10 percent of the profits. He also wants all businesses to have a bag-reduction goal measured by monthly reports. "If a particular retailer does not meet the goal, then it will not be allowed to keep using disposable bags and fees," Trahan says.

    In the seven Texas cities that already have a bag-ban ordinance, customers are responsible for purchasing reusable bags or paying to use plastic ones. Brownsville's 2011 ordinance has brought in $1.4 million in revenue through a $1 flat fee for plastic bags.

    Dwaine Caraway is a big fan of reusable bags.

    Councilmember Dwaine Caraway
      
    Photo by Claire St. Amant
    Dwaine Caraway is a big fan of reusable bags.
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    Farmer News

    Dallas dispenses $100K in grants to groups promoting urban agriculture

    Teresa Gubbins
    Apr 18, 2025 | 10:47 am
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    Oak Cliff Veggie Project

    The city of Dallas is dispensing $100,000 to more than a dozen urban growers and vendors in support of their agricultural efforts.

    According to a release, the city is partnered with Dallas County Health and Human Services in the Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Support Program, with awards to 14 agriculture entities, funding a total of 22 project sites in Dallas.

    The 14 awardees include community farms/gardens, multi-family low-income housing, for-profit CSA’s, houses of worship, school growing sites, and secondary education.

    Recipients include:

    • Feed the Streetz Outreach
    • Oak Cliff Veggie Project
    • Dallas Half Acre Farm
    • Elmwood Farm
    • Paul Quinn College
    • Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters
    • Reshell Friels Farm
    • Joppy Momma’s Farm
    • Temple Emanu-El

    To be eligible for funding, entities must engage in edible farming, contribute to the local food system by producing food or facilitating access to healthy food, and demonstrate a need to improve their infrastructure.

    Funding comes from the City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability (OEQS), in alignment with the city’s Comprehensive Environmental and Climate Action Plan, Goal 7 of which states that "All Dallas Communities Have Access to Healthy Local Food."

    The pilot program was initiated in 2024.

    The projects will use enhanced infrastructure to focus on expanding productive acreage, sustainable land stewardship practices, water conservation, and utilizing solar to power onsite cold storage, pumps, and lights where needed.

    Projects at large are in areas facing challenges around nutrition and diet-related health disparities.

    “Expanded access to healthy, locally grown foods that promote health and well-being have been shown to reduce diet-related disease, increase community resiliency, have a direct impact on farmer livelihoods and local economies where the dollar can circulate longer before leaving the Dallas community economy,” says Comprehensive Urban Agriculture Plan manager Rabekha Siebert in a statement. “When we invest in our local agriculture infrastructure, we are strengthening the network to reach more residents, so that ‘All Dallas Residents Have Access to Healthy Local Food".

    A second round of funding of the Urban Agriculture Infrastructure Grant will be released summer 2025.

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