California bans plastic bags (again); back to paper only at the grocery stores

[marvin martian]

The good news is, if Kamala wins the election, the grocery stores will be empty and the bags won't matter.

Way to go, California!



“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. 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.
The new measure, approved by state legislators last month, bans all plastic shopping bags starting in 2026. Consumers who don't bring their own bags will now simply be asked if they want a paper bag.
State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, one of the bill's supporters, said people were not reusing or recycling any plastic bags. She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic shopping bags trashed per person grew from 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) per year in 2004 to 11 pounds (5 kilograms) per year in 2021.

 

[okfine]

Quit crying...

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Quit crying...

Quit killing trees.

 

[jotathought]

Gosh .. so plastic bags were a high-importance agenda item for signing new legislation into law. It's a good thing California doesn't have issues with homelessness, drugs, illegal aliens, energy, unfinished railways, and fires. But those plastic bags!

 

[whitehall]

The tree huggers would rather kill trees to support the grocery bag issue than go to plastic? WTF

 

[jwoodie]

Quit killing trees.

Everybody but you knew it was a bad idea from the get-go.

 

[okfine]

Quit killing trees.

I kill trees. Sure thing bucko.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They already did this in PG County in Maryland. Maryland is the dysfunctional California of the East. PG County is America’s wealthiest ghetto.
People began walking out of the store with shopping baskets. They ran out of the baskets. Now everything has to be in a shopping cart.
Democrat motto: if it ain’t broke, break it.

 

[drudge X]

These plastic bag are widely available for purchase on eBay.

 

[Puma Punku]

The thin bags were just fine. You could condense a hundred of them into a small bundle and throw them into the recycle bin, or use them for household needs. Then came the extremely overly thick plastic bags at ten cents apiece. Three bags of groceries are about $60, so who sweats the extra 30 cents? That $60 worth of groceries typically come packaged in far, far more plastic than the 3 thin bags. Makes no sense. Sure the thin bags were seen stuck to fences along the road, but were much faster to disintegrate than the thick ones. But ( they say) you can recycle them or use cloth bags. But no-one ever actually washes (sterilizes) re-usable bags, and they are disgustingly laden with Salmonella (Chicken juice)....The thin bags were just fine...damn it, I hate the stupidity.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Gee when I was younger I recall paper bags were destroying the environment

Make up your minds

 

[Puma Punku]

Those thick bags stack up darn quickly, before you know it you have a huge, heavy pile of them. And you paid a dime apiece for this large waste of plastic....nothing was wrong with the thin bags. You could use them to wrap a sandwich for lunch, or wrap a plate of food to put in the fridge......but the thick ones are useless for such things.

 

[Puma Punku]

I used to ask folks at the market that were "virtue signaling" with their cloth bags..."When was the last time you cleaned those bags?" It was often enlightening and embarrassing for them. Now, does any one think that people actual sterilize the 10 cent, thick plastic bags?????? One hell of a lot of dimes for some company ...and one hell of a lot of bacteria for the fools the re-use them.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

California no longer wants to save the trees.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

California no longer wants to save the trees.

California should focus on saving itself. Trillion dollars in unfunded public debt

 

[Puma Punku]

Let's say you buy a package of Chicken thighs, put them into your cloth bag ( or 10 cent plastic bag) and simply don't notice the tiny amount of "chicken juice" that has leaked out. Two weeks later, and you are putting your food in a bag that will very likely poison your entire family. The thin bags worked just fine.

 

[Puma Punku]

Just like the stupid laws that made it criminal for a waitress to give you a plastic straw when not requested. Criminal. As if we were taking the straw out of the plastic cup and throwing it into the ocean. All those straws were thrown away with the rest of the immense plastic used in food containers. But some fools actual thought this would make a dent in worldwide plastics found in the ocean. The stupid hurts.