N.J. made it a year without plastic bags but straws continue

N.J. made it a year without plastic bags but straws continue to be hard to let go

About 2,000 grocery stores have cut roughly 688 million plastic bags and 13 million paper bags per month from the waste stream since the law began, the NJ Food Council estimates.

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