Walmart tries to circumvent the prohibition of plastic bag in this state
In order to continue offering plastic bags, the chain makes them thicker.
There are still a few things again in a grocery store (or at least, for the moment.)Masks are not needed for vaccinated customers,Seniors shopping hours decreaseAnd grocery stores seem to belike "normal" than ever.
But in recent years, even before the pandemic - several states of the country have prohibited single-use plastic bags. Now Walmart takes advantage of a legal loophole in order to use them in the 33 stores in a state. (And for more information on what you should get next time you are at the store, here is the6 best grocery stores to buy at Walmart right now.)
Eight states have active plastic bag bodies in retail stores, including supermarkets.
Eight states around the country plastic bags outlaw It takes hundreds of years to decompose in favor of paper or reusable. These include Maine, Connecticut, New York, Delaware, Oregon, Vermont, Hawaii, California, as well as Washington DC, Boston, Boulder, Colo., Chicago, Los Angeles, County Montgomery, Md., New York, Portland, Maine, San Francisco and Seattle.
All these laws are deployed to reduce plastic waste, that the Vermont government compensates for about 1/3 of the trash of the state. Usually, there is a limit on the size of plastic bags, but as in Delaware, stores try to work around this and use thicker people.
"It is frustrating that some companies have chosen to operate a loophole from the spirit of (the prohibition)", "Delaware Rep. Gerald Brady, D-Wilmington, said in a statement toDelaware newsNewspaper earlier this year.
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Walmart does the same thing in the state of the Constitution.
The State Department of Revenue Services in Connecticut states that prohibited single-use plastic bags have a thickness of less than 4 mils. In order to continue to offer customers plastic bags in its stores, Walmart uses thicker users than that, depending on theCURRENT HARTFORD.
Walmart already uses these thicker plastic bags in other stores.
Chicagoplaced a prohibition of plastic bags in 2015Only to repeal and put fees of $ 0.07 on paper and plastic bags in 2017 instead. Walmart now uses thicker and 4 mils bags in stores in this area. It also uses them in places in Colorado and South Carolina.
However, critics say that the thicker bags are always plastic and must be included in the prohibition.
Connecticut State Sen. Christine Cohen says that, although a total prohibition of all plastic bags, whatever the thickness would be better for the environment, people are more likely to reuse those of more than 4 mils.
"The bags that are four Mild and more are often reused and less common for shops to offer due to cost constraints," she said, according to theCURRENT HARTFORD. "Therefore, I think we are still doing what is the prohibition to do, which aimed at minimizing environmental impacts."
Anyway, critics and environmentalists say that the thicker plastic bags are always harmful.
"We have been working for many years ... to keep the audience away from this mentality where they need a plastic bag for every item they buy at the store", "Louis Rosado Burch, Director of the Connecticut campaign program citizens for the environment The newspaper. "In reality, when you do not offer these bags, people bring their own."
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