That didn’t take long. California’s battle over Proposition 67 was close — 52 percent of voters said yes to a single-use plastic bag ban, 48 percent said no — but it was decisive enough that the bags have already disappeared from grocery and retail stores.
Now the state’s 39 million residents will be hard pressed to find a plastic bag that isn’t already lining a bathroom trash can or among a wad of other bags under a kitchen sink.
The plastic bag ban took effect immediately after it was passed Tuesday, catching some grocery shoppers by surprise. Here are the details: Single-use plastic carry-out bags are gone, and shoppers can either bring their own bags or pay 10 cents for the recyclable bags offered by the store. Retailers will keep the money from the ban after Proposition 65, which sought to direct those funds to environmental causes, failed on Election Day.
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