Plastic bag ban: How Delaware is moving closer to tougher restrictions
Lawmakers have introduced a bill to double down on plastic shopping bag restrictions, making it harder for stores to offer any sort of plastic bag at checkout.
It's in response to grocery stores and other retailers taking advantage of a so-called loophole in Delaware's single-use plastic shopping bag ban, which took effect at the start of 2021, by simply replacing the thinner single-use plastic bags with thicker ones.
Bags can be thicker than 2.25 mils, under the law.
The thicker bags can be reused, but customers don't appear to be bringing them back their second or third trip to the store. Local environmental officials and advocates say the thicker bags could actually be more harmful to the environment, depending on how few are reused.
Read more: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/06/04/delaware-plastic-bag-ban-restrictions/7527008002/