Grocery Plastic Bags Are Now Banned.

[no_hypocrisy]

Today, January 1, many municipalities have banned the standard plastic grocery bags to carry your purchases away. It isn't statewide (yet). A lot of shoppers have brought their own bags or pay 10 cents per paper bag.

It's a start . . . . .

[mr_lebowski]

1. Cool! California has had this for a few years now ... it's a good thing, glad it's spreading :) nt

[dhol82]

2. Great. Now they will have to buy plastic bags to hold their garbage.

What do you use to throw away your trash?

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yep, that is what happens.

I used to recycle mine as garbage bags. Now I have to buy garbage bags. Fortunately I have had enough saved to use for over a year now. The cashiers at the stores can't believe it when they see me using the two year old bags. I think the grocery stores are making money off of this...they charge for the newer, thicker plastic bags and for paper bags when both were free before. When I enter or leave any store I see tons of the newer plastic bags thrown into their recycle cans at the store's entrance. People buy them then throw them out after using them once.

[dhol82]

6. Yup, don't understand why people bought the Glad bags when there were perfectly fine

grocery plastic bags available for the garbage bin.
Just seems foolish.

[highmindedhavi]

3. still using plastic here in SoCal

just not as much, trash bags still plastic, if I forget my bags I just load everything one at a time into my car, or else you will wind up buying more plastic bags

[secondwind]

4. We live in San Fran, and finally started to keep satchels and bags in the trunk of the car.