Plastic grocery bags "aren’t being reused in any meaningful way, and they can’t be recycled,” writes the LA Times. “We need a do-over — a second plastic bag ban that fulfills the promise that lawmakers made in 2014.”
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Editorial: California’s plastic bag ban accidentally created another trash problem
California’s ban on single-use plastic grocery bags worked. But it inadvertently created a new plastic problem — those supposedly reusable and recyclable thicker bags that simply replaced the thinner versions.