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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Dude this has been the law in my state for almost a decade now. It gets even funnier than that though.

You can still get single use plastic bags from non-grocers, target and Walmart used to be able to get away with this since they aren't technically grocers they are retail stores with a grocery store in them.

You can still get "reusable" plastic bags from grocers at $0.10 a piece. These bags are like 10 times thicker than the traditional plastic bags and use way more plastic. No one ever reuses these. People used to reuse the old kind as trash bags, but no one reuses these for some reason. I'm not sure why. People buy better reusable bags, everyone has dozens of them, but no one ever remembers to bring them with them to the store.

During Covid people were even more reluctant to reuse reusable bags for potential contamination. One church of the current thing superseded the other.