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In 2016, Jennifer Dehmoubed and her husband Farzan sought to make grocery shopping more sustainable by selling reusable bags. Now they estimate they've saved more than 4 billion single-use plastic bags.
California just became the first state to sign a bill that bans the distribution of plastic “pre-check out” bags, a victory for environmental groups and Lotus Sustainables, a Carlsbad, CA-based provider of reusable mesh produce bags.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent signing of Senate Bill 1046 will affect all grocery stores in California and eliminate those rolls of plastic bags that are ubiquitous in every produce section. State Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) authored the bill, which passed the legislature on a party-line vote.
Reusable produce bags that can create a profit center for supermarkets while eliminating literally billions of plastic bags from landfills are gaining traction in the retail community.