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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: #2,461 - California’s Plastic Bag Ban Backfired and Produced Way More Plastic Bag Waste
Description: California’s 2014 ban on thin plastic grocery bags caused more plastic bag waste, not less.
the first by any state in the nation — in 2014, noting that the ban was a regressive tax on consumers that would benefit large grocery chains, who could charge ten cents per bag for heavier, government-approved plastic bags that were, in theory, more reusable than the thinner ones.