Has your State stopped using plastic shopping bags and is using brown paper bags only?

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Starting in 2026 California has completely stopped using the handy plastic shopping bags and we are back to using brown paper bags again. Even the fast food restaurants use brown bags for to go orders.

It seems like a lot of trees have to die in order to make these brown paper bags and if I'm correct, they started using the plastic bags because too many trees were being cut down to make them and depleted the forests.

I don't want to throw away perfectly good paper bags, so I just fold them up and store them in a big paper bag.

They are really starting to pile up and I need some ideas about what I can do with all of these paper bags now. I don't have room to store them.

I would appreciate any suggestions for what to do to repurpose these bags.

Thank you!!

llorando · Accepted Answer

Thankfully PA hasn't stopped using plastic bags. You can always recycle the bags, not sure about the stores where you live, but some of the stores where I live you can return your bags to be recycled. If you don't like the waste of paper bags, you can always purchase reusable bags, which in my opinion are better then both paper and plastic bags.

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I've always disliked cheap bags... and because of that, I've always brought my own, and this since way before these "let's save the world" BS that became trendy in the last years

these and others are very common around here and nowadays you find some really funny ones too

bobalife · Accepted Answer

California girly here, I’m quite sad to see the paper bags… I do have tote bags for grocery and stores. It definitely comes in handy esp my big Trader Joe’s tote baggie hehe. I am considering to get a little cart bag from Amazon, it’s cute and looks like it comes in handy.

SaoirseS · Accepted Answer

You could drop them off at a recycling center.

ElenaSeluna · Answer

Yeah, I live in California, so I know what you’re talking about

tbh, I tend not to have any kind of bags on the first place and I have a plastic box to carry things and groceries from my car to the kitchen

I would say use yours in the fire place maybe😅

MrChinaski · Answer

They have done for a number of years now. The thing is that supermarket plastic bags are multi-use items... they live again as garbage bags, collecting food scraps, to keep brushes from getting where they shouldn't be while painting, storing stuff. I now have the immense pleasure of buying plastic bags  and  stowing them in paper shopping bags at the checkout. So that's progress!!!

Likes2drive · Answer

Yeah, they use all paper bags now and charge us for it but they’re made out of recycled paper and you can put them in the recycling bin if your State does that or use them on books as book covers like we used to do in school

queenofcardio · Answer

Yes. Most grocery stores are using reusable grocery bags

genericname85 · Answer

they make sustainable "plastic" from corn starch for that purpose these days. so that's what they use here.

douride2 · Answer

I am in Canada & yes the government has banned those plastic bags. A few places are using paper bags but they charge you for them.

exitseven · Answer

it is a town by town decision. My town uses plastic but the next town where the supermarket is uses paper.

AviatorTom · Answer

No, that's just liberal gobbledegook.

Theunfadeable · Answer

You can build a big paper clubhouse.

Mike_Hum · Answer

No, I don’t live in a state run by retards.

AgentG111 · Answer

Nope!

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