I will buy you reusable grocery bags.
Yes. I said it.
Last week, California voted to ban single-use plastic bags from all grocery and convenience stores. By summer of 2016,it will be the first state to completely phase out plastic bags, and there is similar legislation pending in New Jersey.
Every once in a while I delude myself into thinking that we’re headed in the right direction. But then I started reading what the opponents to this bill had to say, and again I am reminded of the power of lobbyists and the general intellect of the people whom…
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