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Last November, California became the first state to ban single-use plastic bags.

Now every time you go to the store you have to answer and are you

willing to pay 10 cents for one? I'm Olivia Allen Price and this week on

Bay Curious reporter Kelly O'Mara

is here to help us unravel a surprisingly complicated question

that comes from a middle schooler in Sacramento.

Okay, I'm a Lesthette and I'm alive for hot and I'm 12. I go to Smedburg Middle School.

Ammar's family finds themselves having to pay 10 cents for bags a lot.

They like ask us, do you want a plastic bag?

And then they like charge us for it.

So is this actually helping?

Amara says she wants to know two things.

One, are fewer plastic bags being used and two. Are we sure that's really helping the environment?

I feel like it might help a little bit, but like overall because we have so much plastic things this is like a small

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Let's first take a moment to understand the new law and I have to warn you it's a little

complicated because we're talking about a lot of different types of bags.

First off, those thin plastic bags that you were given at grocery stores for years.

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