New Jersey
Related: About this forumGrocery Plastic Bags Are Now Banned.
Today, January 1, many municipalities have banned the standard plastic grocery bags to carry your purchases away. It isn't statewide (yet). A lot of shoppers have brought their own bags or pay 10 cents per paper bag.
It's a start . . . . .
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)dhol82
(9,443 posts)What do you use to throw away your trash?
BigmanPigman
(52,269 posts)I used to recycle mine as garbage bags. Now I have to buy garbage bags. Fortunately I have had enough saved to use for over a year now. The cashiers at the stores can't believe it when they see me using the two year old bags. I think the grocery stores are making money off of this...they charge for the newer, thicker plastic bags and for paper bags when both were free before. When I enter or leave any store I see tons of the newer plastic bags thrown into their recycle cans at the store's entrance. People buy them then throw them out after using them once.
dhol82
(9,443 posts)grocery plastic bags available for the garbage bin.
Just seems foolish.
highmindedhavi
(355 posts)just not as much, trash bags still plastic, if I forget my bags I just load everything one at a time into my car, or else you will wind up buying more plastic bags