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California have banned plastic Hermes Birkinbags, including Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, Malibu, San Francisco and San Jose.but the review gave north Eugene Councilors Mike Clark and George Poling a chance to criticize the fee. ay before she left for Japan to show her handbag collection, Ms. Hindmarch held a presentation in the attic of her town house store on Bond Street. The event expressed the personality of both the designer and her wares: witty and whimsical, but also businesslike. Vividly colored bags in pumpkin orange, a snakeskin purse with a fiery red glow or another in swimming-pool blue with a shocking pink handle were examples of the designer’s upbeat, yet practical

 vision. For 25 years, starting as an 18-year-old at work at the kitchen table, the British designer has built a brand that stands as upright and proud as her exotic skin bags. The company, which she runs with her husband, James Seymour, now has 58 stores around the world, including a Hermes Kelly Handbagsnew one in New York. No Clark said the ban is fine, but the minimum 5-cent charge is “nonsense” and “very bad public policy.” In the survey questions, city staff members should have asked whether the city should require the charge in the first place, he said. Clark challenged his colleagues to put the fee on the ballot to let voters decide whether to keep it. But most councilors appear satisfied with the ban, and t The widening acceptance of the merits of reducing

 the number of plastic bags used comes after a review of the state’s bag recycling law found that the agency in charge of the recycling program can’t say how many bags are being recycled or whether the program has Hermes Garden Party Toteaffected demand, factors that could help state lawmakers in weighing proposals to ban the product. A review by the Associated Press found annually required data has not been analyzed since 2009, two years after the law took effect. Then, 3 percent of California’s plastic bags were being recycled, a 1 percentage point increase from the previous year.