Today is the first day that stores are prohibited from handing out plastic bags.
This means that supermarkets, warehouses, delis and other establishments will not be able to distribute single-use bags.
If you don’t bring your own reusable bag, which you can find in some stores and online, you will have to pay five cents for a paper bag.
This does not apply to SNAP or WIC beneficiaries.
But you will still be able to see plastic bags in stores.
This is because they have a grace period of one month to exhaust their stock of bags.
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