Same in Portland. I snapped a picture of the bag ban because I didn’t think anyone would believe it. So I told the cashier I planned on burning my paper bags, ensuring we all have dirtier air and water. Not a clean burn either, one of those chunky charcoal puffs in the air burnings.
If you weren't so far away, you could just pitch them on my tire fire.
My lib son who lives in Boston was whining that I burn files at our farm instead of putting them in the shredding bin at my office until I pointed out that the trucks that pick up the bins use fossil fuel as do the machines that shred the papers and that it all ends up in the landfill anyway whereas by a clean hot fire at my farm, out in the country, it’s gone in an hour with very little pollution.