What happens when you don't think things through - NJ plastic bag ban
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Canada banned free plastic bags in grocery stores years ago, so we had to pay 5 cents per bag if we forgot our own, and now all single-use plastics and manufacturers will be banned completely by the end of this year. Our grocery stores have already gone back to paper bags but now we have to pay 5 - 25 cents per bag (depending on the store) for those. Just to carry the stuff we buy from them out of their own store.
It's a freaking nightmare, honestly. I'll be smuggling in plastic knives and forks and straws from the US. Say good bye to ziplock baggies, too. Anything you can think of will be banned. It's hard to believe that a human being can be as stupid as Trudeau is but here we are.
NJ was going to ban plastic straws so stores stopped selling them. You had to ask for one if you went to a restaurant or a fast food take out. Then stores started to sell waxed paper straws. No one was buying them so the stores went back to selling plastic straws and the state legislature did not push the ban. The whole thing is so tangled up.
Looks like Canada is practice ground for the USA. It is going to piss off people eventually to the point that it will become political.