• Frog@lemmy.ca
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        9 days ago

        NJ had a single use plastic bag tax. To get around it companies increased the thickness of plastic bags and gave it for free. Apparently the thickness is what separated a single use bag with a reusable one. Politicians are clowns 🤡.

        • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 days ago

          Same up in Connecticut. I have so many crappy “reusable” plastic bags from Target pickup orders during the height of the pandemic. I can’t bring myself to get rid of them because they’re “reusable”, so I use them to hold donations for the thrift store and get rid of them that way. I also use them as packing material.

          I have other, nicer bags I use when I go to shopping.

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          8 days ago

          Politicians are clowns is what you said while it was companies skirting the spirit of the law by exploiting a loophole.

          Amazing that is your take

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            8 days ago

            Imagine writing laws as a job and leaving such an obvious loophole.

            Yes, politicians are clowns.