On 7/31/2016 12:15 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
There is an ongoing grassroots movement here in the US to ban
those gossamer plastic bags, but socially responsible change comes
very slowly here as such ideas are seen as imposing on the freedom of
the individual
It very much depends on where you live in this vast, un-homogeneous
country. In many SF Bay Area cities, and some others in NorCal, the
plastic bags are completely illegal AND all stores, including little
shops selling tiny thing that go into tiny bags, are required by law to
charge for each paper bag. Here, it's 10¢ a bag at the moment. Not a lot
of money, but the combination seems to be working, as few paper bags
leave the markets. If that changes, the price will go up.
We all travel with a sea of reusable bags in back seat and/or trunk.
It's My Bag Moose