The Hill:New Jersey signs strongest plastic and paper bag ban in US

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New Jersey signs strongest plastic and paper bag ban in US
Gov. Phil Murphy has banned single-use plastic and paper food items at stores and restaurants.By Alexandra Kelley | Nov. 04, 2020

On Nov. 4, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed the strongest single-use bag ban in the nation, effectively prohibiting the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in all stores and food service establishments across the state.

The bill, S864, was introduced into the New Jersey state Senate with five primary sponsors, including Sens. Bib Smith, Linda Greenstein, and Nancy Pinkin, all Democrats. It traveled through several committees before being passed on Sept. 24.

Some of the containers affected by the ban include plastic carryout bags, single-use paper carryout bags, polystyrene foam food service products (commonly known as Styrofoam), as well as the limited usage of plastic drinking straws.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. Wow! the clamshells should go, and the plastic bags, but the real probem is that Americans are...

such slobs. Granted, it's not just us, but I can't imagine a German blithely tossing a McDonald's bag out the car window like I see so often here.

Thing is that plastic bags take up only a tiny bit of the volume paper bags do. And paper does NOT break down in the landfill. And plastic may be a better use of oil than burning it in an SUV engine, but bringing that up brings up fights. Like mentioning a monoculture of certain trees to make bags and cartons, but that goes over a lot of heads.

Anyway, if none of them ended up in trees or whale bellies, plastic bags would be a great thing. But they do.