An effort to ban the use of all plastic bags in grocery stores in California is moving forward.
Lena HowlandLawmakers now have until the end of August to pass one of the bills. Only one needs to pass in order to go to Governor Newsom's desk for final approval.Nearly a decade has passed since California made history as the first state in the country to ban single-use plastic bags.The plastic industry claims these heavy-duty plastic bags can be reused up to 125 times. So ABC7 News put them to the test.
Engstrom, State Director of the California Public Interest Research Group, worked on the original plastic bag ban."People were getting a little nervous about bringing in their own bags, and then we just saw this resurgence of plastic in our stores and that's when we really saw these thicker plastic bags show up in large numbers," she said.
A loophole in the law allowed grocery stores to continue selling thicker plastic bags considered to be "reusable" for at least 125 times."The reality is that people are not really reusing them so they're ending up as trash," Engstrom said.It reached an all-time high in 2021 with more than 230,000 tons thrown away statewide.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of Orinda is working on one of the two identical bills aiming to change that.CA to start phasing out single-use plastic bags used for meat and produce: Here's why A big change is in the works for California grocery stores. The single-use plastic bags used for produce or meat are by law being phased out."We live along the beautiful creeks of Orinda and we have a grocery store right on the creek and he started to notice that in our nature areas, the trash and the bags from the grocery store are ending up in our waterways and we would see it," she said.says "bans force stores and shoppers to switch to other products that are more expensive...
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