https://lluh.org/patients-visitors/health-wellness/live-it/online-health-show/episode-2-reusable-grocery-bags
https://news.arizona.edu/story/reusable-grocery-bags-contaminated-with-e-coli-other-bacteria
The county nest to ours in MD still has plastic bags, but you have to pay for them. Lidl has paper bags - which you are also required to buy.