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OKIsItJustMe

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5. I take my plastic packaging to the collection box in the store

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 23, 2024, 10:27 PM

Sep 2024

I am skeptical regarding what happens to it at that point.

Getting rid of the single-use shopping bags was a good first step. I question whether we’ll ever be able to get rid of it all. The only solution I think will work is truly biodegradable plastics…

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California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2024 OP

It's about time HarryM Sep 2024 #1

Bravo Gov Newsome and Senator Blakespear Beringia Sep 2024 #2

NY banned them in time for COVID-19 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2024 #3

Here in New York we may not get plastic shopping bags, but everything is sold in plastic! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2024 #4

I take my plastic packaging to the collection box in the store OKIsItJustMe Sep 2024 #5

I'm not aware that we have that here (Northeast, south of Lake George, not far from Vermont) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2024 #6

I could be wrong, but I believe it's a state-wide requirement OKIsItJustMe Sep 2024 #7