Here in Virginia, the Food Lion stores have a plastic bag recycling bin in front of the stores where you can dispose of your used plastic shopping bags.
Now if I could just remember to take the darn things with me when I go shopping.
Here in Texas, the HEB stores also have a bin out front to recycle the plastic bags.
I have 2 reusable bags..they stay in my car, and go in the store with me every time, because I also sometimes end up buying more than I intend.
I also make a point to get a couple of plastic bags every week....handy for cleaning up the cat’s litter box.
Environmental arguments aside, it is a relief to me not to have that pile of paper OR plastic bags cluttering up the house anymore.
Don’t blame the grocery stores for this...their interest is making the customer happy, not saving the world. I can see this lovely law resulting in a lot of customers screaming at an $8-an-hour cashier who had nothing to do with the new policy.
Who cares if they get recycled or put back into a landfill and don’t break down for 1000 years.
Nobody is going to be digging up landfills to see anyway so they just stay underground.