State law already mandates that retailers stop using the plastic bags on Jan. 1. Friday’s settlement hits the manufacturers with $1.7 million in penalties, establishes that they violated state law by selling unrecyclable bags for years, and will result in many of the bags being removed from the market early, before the end of this year.
I disagree. They stop giving bags but they still sell boxes of bags. They’re just bags- they carry your next groceries, your lunch, dog poop, bathroom trash, the junk in your car, cat litter, … Why do we ban bags and then buy more bags?
Because it means people use a lot fewer, which means a lot less plastic blowing into waterways
🤷 We donate the good ones to the food bank and use the thin ones around the house. Trying to reuse more and buy less. Also, trash bags have become crazy expensive!!
For the cat litter, I’ve started to save and use the plastic bags we get with our food anyways. Lots of things like frozen food, bread, chips, whatever, come in bags that can have a second use before being thrown away.