Open your pantry, and you’ll likely find it: a teetering mountain of “reusable” heavy-duty blue and green shopping bags. Most of them arrived with curbside grocery orders you never asked for, and you’ll likely never use them all
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Trenton NJ, Nearly three years after New Jersey implemented one of the nation’s strictest plastic bag bans, reports suggest the policy has had significant “backfire” effects. While the law successfully removed billions of thin, single-use bags, it has led to a dramatic increase in total plastic consumption and greenhouse gas emissions due to a reliance on heavier, “reusable” bags.
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