Wonder how much the big stores are saving by not having to purchase bags anymore...


New Jersey residents fight plastic bag ban, steal shopping baskets

New Jersey grocery stores are going to hell in a handbasket.

Garden State shoppers who are ticked off over the state’s plastic bag ban are fighting back – by stealing hand-held shopping baskets instead of forking over a few cents for a reusable bag.

“They get nasty when they’re told that they can’t take the basket out of the store and some walk out anyway,” Kathy, who works at a New Jersey ShopRite, told The Post Tuesday.

“It is a problem at our store. People seem to think that it’s the store that came up with the bag ban and not the governor. People are stealing them because they’re forgetting their bags and don’t want to pay 34 cents for a reusable bag.”

Workers toiling at food stores up and down the Turnpike said plastic shopping baskets have virtually disappeared from their shops since the plastic bag ban took effect in May following a 2020 state law that banned the use of single-use plastic bags.

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Actually…the same people that are banning plastic bags were the ones saying years ago that brown paper bags were bad for the environment and plastic bags are going to save us. Oh yeah…I remember.

NYT article 2021 - An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production, according to a 2018 study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. That equates to daily use for 54 years — for just one bag.