New Yorkers Adjusting To First Day Of Plastic Bag Ban

Grocery shoppers are being reminded to bring their reusable bags or expect to pay for paper bags at the checkout. CBS2's Nick Caloway reports.

[nikleme]

Hilarious how that man’s bag dropped all
his groceries on the street. 😂

[m.lambey]

If you are paying $.05 for a bag reuse it. For example, MTA charge a $1.00 for a new metrocards because people were throwing away metrocards. This will make people reuse those bags. We are a country who like to waste stuff so we have to make this change. This isn't about your convenience it is about your environment.

[Jimfromearthoo]

Tell me what in a supermarket does not come in plastic? 🤔

[c.r]

You'll start to see people using suitcases

[m.lambey]

What people don't know is that they was never recycled plastic program. They were just shipping plastic to third world countries to handle they plastic problem. The problem is that these countries aren't equipped to deal with all the plastic that was being shipped them. So they started sending the plastic back to the U.S. Now you know why they is a ban.

[lucaswells]

I live in Europe and I always bring my own bags, I’m kind of surprised that people are still so reliant on plastics bags

[RealMoby]

I really feel like they don’t need these bags people can bring In their own bags saves money

[rickblaine]

They did this in Austin tx and other Texas cities in 2013. The "ban" was lifted in 2018. This was response from some city leaders...

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent letters to 11 cities and towns in the state with bag bans, telling them their ordinances are "illegal" and "unenforceable".
I'm sure a lot of New Yorkers felt like a lot of Texans stating that it was " ridiculous"! I also had some what of the same reaction BUT, I guess anything we can do as whole community to change our view and feelings of convenience over environmental conservation could be a positive.
To quote the great Jeff goldblum😂... "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should".

Worldwide, people use a mind-boggling 1 trillion plastic bags — including plastic retail bags — each year,  according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. US residents use more than 380 billion plastic bags and wraps yearly, the EPA reports, and only 5% of the total bags produced ever get recyled.

WHY are frozen pizza or french fries etc ALLOWED to be packaged in plastic bags? LOL

[FlashM]

Now I’m triple bagging my items everywhere I shop

[JoseSanchez-puoc]

Poetry's they killing all the trees just to make brown bags

[allennavas]

My conclusion about this ban. This state is going broke, businesses are closing in the city, or leaving to another state and the only way for the state to make up the lost revenue is to pass this dumb law. It's like Canada making J-walking illegal.

[Dawid]

It costs 50 cent in sweden but we Don’t complain

[luckap]

Dam, sorry u guys are going through IT. I still haven’t got used it here in California

[dvamateur]

Only in third world countries you have to come with your own bag to a store.

[Mika-uxoj]

Wait one minute. If its a PLASTIC bag ban, why can't you switch over to the old school PAPER bags? No charge for the paper bags and people happen to recycle them.

i guess i need to buy a 50 gallon bag to clean my car... now that the smaller "single use" bags are not available ... SMART.

[nunyabidnis]

We have used reusable canvas bags for years. Not really for environmental reasons, you can put more stuff in the canvas bags.

[hopolo]

this video did not mention reusable bags at all, which is the real solution.

i personally will buy 1/2 as much per trip ... use MORE plastic per trip... and travel twice as much... so enjoy that.