“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed on Sunday by the governor, Gavin Newsom, that bans all plastic shopping bags.
California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and recyclable.
Bag taxes are not effective and not enforced. People will either pay for the convenience or not pay and take them anyway. If we’re serious about massively reducing our plastic pollution trivial plastics like bags and utensils must be banned for sale and manufacture.
I keep mine and reuse them over and over.
We need to also ban the thin plastic packaging material that directly contacts the food we eat.
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“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed on Sunday by the governor, Gavin Newsom, that bans all plastic shopping bags.
California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and recyclable.
Bag taxes are not effective and not enforced. People will either pay for the convenience or not pay and take them anyway. If we’re serious about massively reducing our plastic pollution trivial plastics like bags and utensils must be banned for sale and manufacture.
I keep mine and reuse them over and over.
We need to also ban the thin plastic packaging material that directly contacts the food we eat.