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"The California state legislature enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags on Friday near the end of its two-year session, a measure that if signed into law would become the first of its kind in America.
The measure would ban grocery stores from handing out single-use grocery bags with customers’ purchases, and provide money to local plastic bag companies to retool to make heavier, multiple-use bags that customers could buy."
Good for California. I hope other states follow suit. Those single use bags make up a significant portion of the litter along the roadways. More than 10 billion of these bags are used in California alone every year. Multiply that by 50 states and the resulting amount of un-recyclable litter they create is a massive problem.
I've been using cloth bags at the grocery store for 10 years now. I don't see the problem with this.
But it's not really a ban on plastic bags. It's a ban on "free" plastic bags because the stores will still offer them but now you have to pay for them.
And in Austin they are paying for them and still using them.
Nickel and diming people to death will just further the decline.
Good for California. I hope other states follow suit. Those single use bags make up a significant portion of the litter along the roadways. More than 10 billion of these bags are used in California alone every year. Multiply that by 50 states and the resulting amount of un-recyclable litter they create is a massive problem.
I've been using cloth bags at the grocery store for 10 years now. I don't see the problem with this.
It's a much bigger and more serious problem than roadway litter.
Like many other "free" things, you are already paying a big bill for these bags. Really, Americans got along just fine without them for many decades. Here in the PNW, if you reuse your paper bags or use your own nondisposable bags, you get a discount on your grocery bill.
Those that lose their jobs won't have to worry about groceries anyway.
Yeah, the people whose jobs it was to build buggy whips faced the same problem when the world moved beyond their product.
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Originally Posted by jacqueg
It's a much bigger and more serious problem than roadway litter.
Like many other "free" things, you are already paying a big bill for these bags. Really, Americans got along just fine without them for many decades. Here in the PNW, if you reuse your paper bags or use your own nondisposable bags, you get a discount on your grocery bill.
Yes, many of the stores here in Illinois do the same thing.
"The California state legislature enacted a ban on plastic grocery bags on Friday near the end of its two-year session, a measure that if signed into law would become the first of its kind in America.
The measure would ban grocery stores from handing out single-use grocery bags with customers’ purchases, and provide money to local plastic bag companies to retool to make heavier, multiple-use bags that customers could buy."
Good for California. I hope other states follow suit. Those single use bags make up a significant portion of the litter along the roadways. More than 10 billion of these bags are used in California alone every year. Multiply that by 50 states and the resulting amount of un-recyclable litter they create is a massive problem.
I've been using cloth bags at the grocery store for 10 years now. I don't see the problem with this.
It wasn't so long ago that the SAME people were demanding switching from paper to plastic.
Thank God we have liberals dictating what kind of grocery bags are acceptable. More nanny state nonsense from bunch of statist bullies.
Another reason California sucks, too.
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