This. All “environmental friendly” laws tend to be performative at best. Most big stores in California now offer paper bags as an option, my guess would be more

This. All “environmental friendly” laws tend to be performative at best. Most big stores in California now offer paper bags as an option, my guess would be more than half. This law is barely going to change anything. If I would change, I would force retailers to stop wrapping everything in plastic. It’s so obnoxious that sometimes when you have two loose lemons in the basket, the cashier will inevitably lecture you on putting it in a bag so that it’s easier to handle, and sometimes might outright pull a bag themselves from under the counter and put the lemons in them. The most hilarious part about this transaction is that each lemon has a little plastic barcode attached to it for scanning, and when you do put it in a bag, you have to pull the lemon out to scan it, making it harder to handle. Nothing makes sense anymore.