Grocery Giant Announces It's Banning The Use of Plastic Bags In Its Stores
Many communities nationwide have enacted plastic bag bans over the last few years. Typically news of bans applies to stores at a local level. But Wegmans decided to expand on the idea and started working toward a company-wide ban.
Attempts at banning disposable plastic bags in grocery stores started over a decade ago. Califonia made waves in the retail industry when it enacted the first state-wide bill of its kind in 2014. Since then, nine other states have passed legislation banning single-use plastic bags.
Those states include Maine, California, Vermont, Connecticut, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Delaware. Each law differs slightly in its requirements and imposes minimal fees for replacement paper bags. And while these state-wide bans are not alone.
Various cities and counties nationwide have enacted similar laws. But the inspiration for Wegmans to ban plastic bags came from one notable source – New York. According to the grocer’s category merchant for packaging, energy, and sustainability, Jason Wadsworth, it drew inspiration from that one particular law.
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as a matter of fact ALL stores in NY haven't used plastic bags for two years now.
It took awhile to get used to taking reusable tote bags to the store every time. They do offer paper bags for 5 cents apiece (money donated to local food shelfs) if you forget your tote bags.
Instead of plastic bags blowing around and lying on the ground, now we have discarded COVID face masks. 😒 People are going to be pigs (my apologies to pigs everywhere) as long as there are people. 
