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California is hoping its latest plastic bag ban will actually work

by Caleigh Wells
Nov 1, 2024
The old law had a loophole that resulted in a rise in plastic grocery bag waste. A new law aims to fix that.
California’s first single-use plastic bag ban resulted in stores switching to bags that were thick enough to reuse 125 times. A lot of recyclers can’t process those.
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