Oregonians Are Still Adjusting To The Single-Use Plastic Bag Ban

A few months ago Nick Gross wouldn’t have thought twice about taking reusable bags with him when he went grocery shopping. In fact, he wouldn’t have thought about it at all.

Now, most of the time he goes to the store he thinks about his reusable shopping bags — usually when he’s in the checkout line and realizes he forgot to bring any. That’s when he has to decide whether to pay the store’s per-bag fee for his groceries or carry them out. 

“It puts it on the consumer to deal with the fallout of the ban as far as remembering to take your reusable bags into the store with you, which I always forget 90%of the time,” the Damascus resident said. “Then you end up having to pay 5 cents for a bag that you used to get for free.” 

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