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Related: About this forumAfter pandemic delay, Washington's plastic bag ban to go into effect on Oct. 1
Don't forget your reusable grocery bags in the car: Washington will enact its long-awaited plastic bag ban on Oct. 1.
The statewide ban on single-use plastic bags was passed in the 2020 legislative session and signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee later in the year. Many cities in the state had already banned the use of such bags, including Seattle, Edmonds and Tacoma. Despite the local bans, Washington residents still use 2 billion single-use plastic bags each
While the ban was originally scheduled to go into effect at the beginning of 2021, the implementation was later delayed by Inslee amid the COVID-19 state of emergency. Inslee cited paper bag supply issues due to increased demand for takeout and delivery and the fact that many retailers asked customers not to bring reusable bags from home as cause for the delay.
However, with economic restrictions lifted amid the state's full reopening, the Washington Department of Ecology announced Wednesday that the ban would go into effect in the fall.
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/seattlenews/article/washington-plastic-bag-ban-goes-into-effect-oct-16332655.php
brewens
(13,566 posts)bags. I use them to clean out the cat box, as small wastebasket liners, to wrap stuff I'll use pretty quickly to freeze, and sometimes for leftovers rather than dirty a storage container.
jpak
(41,757 posts)Better keep couple extra reusable bags on your trunk, because you will forget them.
Yup
LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)Stores are starting to use plastic again.
Why? You ask when everyone was cooperating and buying reusable?
Because after weeks those very washable bags that are used begin to look terrible.
Many do not wash them. They look disease infected. Gross even. Many markets dont want them on their counters.
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)bag of some sort or I think the garbage men would drop them all over the place.