California single use plastic bag ban

If you read all my posts instead of fixating on one you'd see that I already said I'd reuse food bags, so it's really not a big deal.

Ah, yes, the sanitary napkin belts! And of course my own mother had to tell me how much better I had it than when she was young! Shudder. But when the change from a gauze covering - which could leak - to the current version - which does not, came out, I didn't like those sticky things! So if all plastic goes away, we will once again adapt.

What you said is that you were going to start wrapping things in produce bags unnecessarily, basically because you don't feel like you should have to be financially responsible for cleaning up after your pet. You're reusing food bags that you didn't need in the first place on the grocery store's dime. Now that people are disagreeing with you, you're claiming you're destitute. 

I realize it's pointless for me or anyone else to try to reason with you on this. I guess I'm just going to have to chalk it up to an example of the "I can't be inconvenienced, me me me!" attitude that's one of the reasons California can't "trust" it's citizens like another poster believes they should when it comes to making responsible decisions about bag use.

(does anyone know how to unlike a post if your fat fingers accidentally hit the "like" button ?  )

They already are discontinued in our area. I do pay for a paper bag for raw meats but it's only 10 cents. Otherwise I keep a stash of bags in my car. I have forgotten them at times but again it's only 10 cents a bag.

We do buy plastic bags for lining our trash bins.

I don't get why this is such a big deal. I think it's a good move for the environment.

Does anyone know where the 10 cents per paper bag fee is supposed to go? I would hope the grocery store doesn't just get it as profit. "only 10 cents a bag" x hundreds of customers each day in each store is a lot of money.

I am not Compwalla, but I see the bags blowing about all the time. I can look at any field at any time and see a bunch of plastic bags caught on crops. I can look at any chain link fence at any time and see a plastic bag caught on it. I can look in the lake and see plastic bags floating around. In part it's due to the fact that I literally live on the prairie -- lots of wide open space PLUS nearly constant wind. So there's a lot of stuff blowing around, including stuff that people clearly wouldn't want to be blowing around like recycling bins, trash cans, volleyball nets, but there's also a lot of stuff that I think is just from people littering.  

Are people here more careless too? I don't know. But I DO know that my coworker's husband makes more money picking up soda cans and other recyclables from the side of the highway than he does at his real job. One day last week, in 4 hours in one spot, he and a buddy picked up 28 FULL SIZE leaf bags full of crushed soda and beer cans and glass beer and liquor bottles. He had been there the week before. So in one week, think how many people threw soda cans out of their vehicles. I somehow doubt those people are carefully re-using and/or recycling plastic bags. They're probably throwing them out of their car windows too. 

here it was supposed to go to the store and they were supposed to look at ways to recycle

That is what I was afraid of. You can't tell me they are going to be collecting all that money for paper bags and the only stipulation is that they are "supposed to look into recycling options". Umm, no. Just no, that is not ok.

The retail cost of the plastic bags is about 2 1/2 cents so the wholesale cost is at least half of that, probably a penny. I'm not sure how much a paper bag costs but I wouldn't imagine it costs much more, maybe less. So the grocers stand to make 9 cents on every bag.

I have yet to have a paper litter bag get a hole. As far as the dog park goes, the park I take my dogs to has trash cans every thirty feet or so, even on the woods trails. So I don't need to bring the dog bags home with me. I bought some at the dollar store that are just the right size. If I happen to run out, I use the bags the newspaper comes in.