As a result of Proposition 67 passing in 2016, grocery stores in California have been banned from providing customers with plastic bags for their purchases. opponents of the ban have argued that reusable grocery bags themselves posed a risk of environmental damage, claiming that diseases resulting from unwashed/inadequately cleaned bags are as dangerous as polluting the oven's with used plastic.
Because of the corona virus, Governor Newsom has, at least temporarily, in essence agreed with the plastic bag ban opponents. He has temporarily by Executive Order, suspended the ban until June 22nd on the basis that the reusable bags pose too much danger of carrying the corona virus from being inadequately cleaned. FYI.
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