My wife has gotten very angry with me because I refuse to either carry in a grocery bag or pay for single use bags. So far I’ve bought only what I can carry, gone in with an old style plastic bag I just got at CVS in my back pocket, or let her do the shopping. I simply refuse to comply with the law. She does not understand my little protest.
Going forward I am switching to shopping at Costco. They will give you boxes to put things in.
But I do have a cloth one...when I remember to take it.
I have pointed out to people on more than a few occasions the old meat stains that they're putting raw fruit into and advised making use of those free bags in the produce section if they insist on not cleaning their bags.
It is absolutely amazing how little people consider cross contamination for their shopping bags. At the end of the day, this law will end up killing people. But what is a few lives here and there each month compared to the beauty of the same amount of trash being dumped by idiots...
Oh, right, keep forgetting, the public and the lawmakers never considered that the most likely people to dump their bag and not reuse it at home or throw it away are the same people they're giving free bags to with their EBT cards.