[artichokegrower]

Environmental groups argue that low-income shoppers are protected because the bill says anyone who qualifies for food stamps or a nutrition program for low-income women and their babies can get paper bags or reusable plastic bags from grocery stores for free.

In Los Angeles County, where a bag ban has been in place since 2011, data show that 47 percent of consumers at large grocery stores get free bags.

So if you flash your EBT card at the grocery store not only do we taxpayers have to pay for your groceries but we also have to buy you a bag. So poor people are exempt from environmental regulation? Also this article states that half of the customers in California grocery stores are using food stamps.

[BCW]

Cut down more trees for paper bags!

[cableguymn]

and you know the EBT types will always bring back their reusable bags to save the tax payers money right?

uhh huh... I bet 1 in 100 actually gets reused at the store.

[sniper63]

In the 70’s didn’t California ban paper bags because we were killing the rainforest or some such nonsense?

[Beagle8U]

What a great idea! People will reuse bags and pack groceries in bags covered with rotten meat juices...what could go wrong?

Washing your fresh vegetables in the toilet bowl would give a similar effect. It’s natural and organic, yum yum!

[RedStateRocker]

Doesn't matter to me, I hate nearly anything disposable short of TP.
“Waste not want not” was what I learned growing up and it is still the guiding rule for this household. Just like with plastic utensils, some inner part of me just hates stuff you use once and then toss.
Not that I think it's a Good Thing that the nanny state is making things possibly difficult for people, but i don't waste a scrap of paper, a drop of water or gasoline or a plastic bag (I have enough already for the next three canines).
Plenty of stupid crap coming out of Sacto to get really riled up about...
Cranky .02

[jetson]

Seems like the plastic bag recycle cans at the stores were always jammed full. So why not just put more cans out for plastic recycle or give money back like cans? What about garbage can bags, leaf bags, zip locks, etc.? It was the garbage disposal sites complaining about plastic.

[Buckeye McFrog]

On the positive side, they’ll be hiring lumberjacks in the Pacific Northwest.