Stephen Joseph

The extension of the 5-year-old plastic bag ban in San Francisco to all retail establishments has gotten the OK from a lower court to go into effect next month, as scheduled.

But Stephen Joseph, attorney for the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, said he will take the case to the First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco, where the coalition also has a lawsuit pending against a Marin County plastic ban bag.

"We are appealing" the San Francisco plastic bag court ruling, Joseph told Plastics News after the Superior Court of California for the county of California denied the coalition's request.