Anyone who shops at a grocery store is used to the checkout person asking you if you want a bag with that?
If you say yes, you get charged usually 10 cents per bag you want, they pack up your groceries and out the door to your car you go.
But now with the growing push to get rid of all plastic bags at grocery store checkouts in California has a lot of consumers asking, what now?
That bill by State Senator Catherine Blakespear to do just that is making its way through the California legislature. The measure would close a loophole on the original plastic ban passed 10 years ago that allowed grocery stores to sell customers thicker plastic bags that could be recycled but most of those she says also end up in landfills or oceans.
So her bill would stop the use of plastic film bags by most stores. It would mean stores would have to offer only 100 percent recycled paper bags or just let shoppers bring their own reusable bags, which a good number of shoppers now already do.
Grocery store shopping already has changed since the pandemic, with fewer checkers, and now fewer self-checking stations and of of course, longer lines.
Guess we can get used to anything, And that could mean even more on line grocery shopping!
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