Santa Monica Plastic Bags

You cannot get a plastic bag anymore at the grocery store in Santa Monica. The city government has banned them. I wrote about this earlier as a dumb idea. It continues to be a dumb idea. The entire premise is stupid. If people want to reuse grocery bags, they can. No one is stopping them. But why force everyone to reuse grocery bags. People won't remember because for the most part, people don't think about grocery bags. I don't. There are a million things worse for the environment that are routinely used than grocery bags. Take out containers. Disposable diapers. Not recycling (Santa Monica is frustratingly bad at recycling). Not to mention, this policy just increases the number of reusable bags they get put out into the environment and which will be eventually thrown away as well. I might even write a letter, this is such a dumb policy.