SURPRISE! California’s Ban on Plastic Shopping Bags Has Backfired
Back in 2014, the state of California banned thin, disposable plastic shopping bags. They only allowed thicker, reusable plastic bags.
The problem, people still threw away the thicker bags. Now the weight of plastic bags being thrown away has increased by 30 percent.
As a result, the state now wants to ban all plastic bags completely.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
California’s war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired. Lawmakers are trying again
It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags, ushering in a wave of anti-plastic legislation from coast to coast.
But in the years after California seemingly kicked its plastic grocery sack habit,
