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Environment & Energy

hunter

(40,876 posts)

7. California has banned the shopping bag sort.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2026, 07:42 PM

Friday

It's all paper now.

I was using them to line bathroom trash cans and to pick up dog poop.

Most plastic isn't recycled. It goes straight to the dump where it is buried or in some places incinerated.

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