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The following is a pre-recorded program.

Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California extraordinaire, signed a bill into law that closes a legal loophole that has allowed for actually an increase in California's plastic bag waste.

Now there's a 2014 law that made it illegal to have plastic bags. They kicked in many years ago.

And that was designed to ban the environmental blight.

And so about a decade ago,

Californians voted to ban plastic grocery bags that were single-use bags.

Those really flimsy bags, you go into a store of paper, plastic, I'll take plastic, and those are single-use plastic, and they just clogged everything up.

And there was just this huge amount of plastic in our ecosystems, in the water, in the rivers.

And so what happened was that the governor has now signed a law that says that those double

strong plastic bags, the real thick ones, which are now mandatory if you ask for a plastic

bag in a supermarket, all you're going to get is that super

thick, quote, reusable bag, and you get to pay 10 cents for that? Well, it turns out that

there's even more waste with those than were with the single use. And how is that possible?

Because nobody reuses those bags. There don't know four times five times is thick

so there's that much more plastic and people throw them away that's what i do i'm not particularly

proud of it but i go to the store i know that's, I even have bags in my trunk that are reusable.

But I forget them and I go in the store.

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