SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to become the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets to help promote recycling.Under the legislation, beginning in six months large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from petroleum products. [Link]

Great job San Fran. Personally, I prefer paper bags anyway. The only change that I would request is that the paper bags have handles on them, so they can more easily be carried from car to house. Albertson’s doesn’t have this option, but other stores do (Trader Joe’s, Corti Bro’s), so I would lobby for this to be a new option if they get rid of plastic.

As for recycling, we’re pretty good about using the plastic bags for that purpose. We load them up with wine bottles, diet pepsi cans, and other household items that eventually wind up in the big blue recycle container, but unfortunately, most people don’t do that.

Anyway - just a quick news story to encourage others to be more mindful.

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