Why plastic bags will be gone from California groceries by the end of the year (www.mercurynews.com)

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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.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 5 days ago

When it happened in NY a few years ago everyone lost their minds for like a week, but I think people have come around to it. I love my bag, it's fairly heavy duty and it holds a hefty amount of groceries. I'm just shopping for one person, but it holds my weeks worth of groceries. No more carrying 13 separate bags and feeling bad about all the plastic lol

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