[Former Proud Canadian]

Whatever happened to paper grocery bags?

[J40000]

Those went out in the name of ‘saving trees’. They FORCED us into plastic and NOW they’re wanting us to bring in our own burlap bags...

[Sacajaweau]

We used the paper bags to drain homemade French Fries. I don’t think they even had Scott Towels back then.

[American Constitutionalist]

" Whatever happened to paper grocery bags? "

I think it had something to do with saving trees or something like that, but the enviromentalheads were very short sighted in that, now we got the problem of animals getting caught up in plastic bags, plastic bags being blown around in the wind getting under cars sticking to the under side of the car's exhaust system, bags laying around littering the place where the bags don't decompose.
If you were to read into this young store clerk's response, and consider what Cass Sunstein has proposed, the liberals and a fascists dictatorship would do away with older people because they think old people are such a burden to society, that's what the new generation of the liberal world new world order thinks.

[Oztrich Boy]

Whatever happened to paper grocery bags?

Paper doesn't grow on trees you know

[Arrowhead1952]

Some stores have the option of paper, but you have to ask for them.