what ever happened to that biodegradable plastic they were making 20 years ago? I thought all plastic bags was made of that by now. As for a use tax on disposable plastic, I have absolutely NO problem with that. We, as a society, make far far too much trash. Much of our “recycling” gets sent to some third world country, and then taken out to sea an dumped. The people who create all this filth ought to pay for it. A hundred years ago, no one had a “waste service” or a recycling center, we recycled ourselves, and what could not be recycled was generated at a much lesser amount. As it stands, our local taxes are paying for waste removal, our federal taxes are paying for “recycling centers” which don’t actually recycle. Let the people who generate the trash bear the cost of dealing with it.
The third world country that took US recycled trash was China - but they got tired of recycling used pizza boxes and dumped the last shipments at sea.
Now all your recycled trash, except metals and heavy cardboard, go to the local landfill or some neighboring town’s landfill.
Generations ago, we burned all of our garbage and trash of which there was very little, since there was almost no packaging.
There are stations in a local park which dispense such bio-degrading bags so that people can pick up after their dogs. I’d guess they’re cost prohibitive for grocery stores. Yet. somehow, inflation and rampant shoplifting are absorbable costs.