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I'm pleasantly surprised:
https://www.wistv.com/2019/07/10/no-more-plastic-richland-county-council-moves-closer-bag-ban/
While I take reusable cloth bags with me most of the time when I shop, I don't always. I use the plastic shopping bags that Qiao and I get for household trash, and for the trash I pick up from the road by my house.
If stores start having only paper bags available, I'll have to use the paper bags for my trash instead. Plastic bags are more convenient for trash as they are less likely to break or leak from wet contents, and you can tie them shut with the handles. Paper bags can be closed by pinching the top edges together and rolling them down from the top, but that's not as secure and limits how much trash you can put in them. Maybe stapling them closed would work better. Maybe I'd finally use up that ancient box of staples which is in the back of my drawer.
But what about those narrow plastic bags containing mostly advertisements, which they throw by everyone's driveway at least once a week. Which are supposedly "opt-in", but good luck trying to find out how to opt out (I think my mom did; I need to ask her). I hope they ban those.
https://www.wistv.com/2019/07/10/no-more-plastic-richland-county-council-moves-closer-bag-ban/
While I take reusable cloth bags with me most of the time when I shop, I don't always. I use the plastic shopping bags that Qiao and I get for household trash, and for the trash I pick up from the road by my house.
If stores start having only paper bags available, I'll have to use the paper bags for my trash instead. Plastic bags are more convenient for trash as they are less likely to break or leak from wet contents, and you can tie them shut with the handles. Paper bags can be closed by pinching the top edges together and rolling them down from the top, but that's not as secure and limits how much trash you can put in them. Maybe stapling them closed would work better. Maybe I'd finally use up that ancient box of staples which is in the back of my drawer.
But what about those narrow plastic bags containing mostly advertisements, which they throw by everyone's driveway at least once a week. Which are supposedly "opt-in", but good luck trying to find out how to opt out (I think my mom did; I need to ask her). I hope they ban those.