California’s Gavin Newsom signs law banning all plastic bags at grocery stores
California’s Gavin Newsom signs law banning all plastic bags at grocery stores
State had already banned thin plastic shopping bags, but new measure bans all plastic bags starting in 2026
State had already banned thin plastic shopping bags, but new measure bans all plastic bags starting in 2026
Cool. Now do the oil wells that litter Long Beach and that sit out within swimming distance of the beach.
Holy shit two days later and he fucking did it. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28485392
I guess I’ll eat a plate full of plastic bags with crude oil syrup on top.
Performative and possibly even counterproductive. The other bags you can use will usually require a larger consumption of fossil fuels consumed over their likely use lifetime. Paper bags are more energy intensive (including burning fossil fuels for energy). Cloth bags are much, much more energy intensive, you need to use each one hundreds of times for it to balance out.
If the concern is pollution from plastics, grocery bags are a very minor contributor. Most can simply be reused as trash bags or trashed/incinerated. It's tires and runoff from freeways that are the elephant in the room but addressing that requires building a real mass transit system.