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The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

"However, the truth is almost none of those bags are reused or recycled, and they end up in landfills or polluting the environment." Before, grocery stores would offer patrons plastic or paper bags.

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(AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

Such bags included paper and high-density polyethylene plastic bags, which plastic companies argued could be reused. This year, CALPIRG released a report showing that the volume of plastic bag ...

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