These state- and local-level regulations have brought about a 25 percent to 47 percent plunge in the proportion of bags in total coastal littler cleanups, in comparison to places that lack such rules, according to the study, published Thursday in Science.
The problem is that practice isn’t seen as posh and a lot of supermarkets present themselves as cool, hip places to shop. They also sell boxes and packing material, something they would sell less of if they gave boxes away at the front of the store.
The only brick and mortar store I have seen that did that was a locally owned grocery on the “other side of the tracks” in the town I grew up in.