So let me get this straight. I go to the grocery store and buy a lb. of ham wrapped in plastic, a loaf of bread in plastic, milk in a plastic jug, napkins wrapped in plastic, a salad in plastic, and they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment?

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The argument is that plastic shopping bags are littered more. With the packaging you mostly put it in the bin with no issues.

Certainly in the UK you used to see plastic bags flying around the pavement and caught in trees all the time but not since they stated charging for them.