Long Beach – Plastic grocery bags will become a thing of the past today in Long Beach, when a new ordinance takes effect requiring shoppers to provide their own re-usable bags.
Beginning today, large grocery chains, big-box retailers and large drug stores will be prohibited from providing single-use plastic bags. Customers who don't bring their own reusable bags will have to pay 10 cents each for a paper bag at the checkout counter.
Neighborhood markets, pharmacies, convenience stores, liquor stores, farmers markets and sandwich and coffee shops have until Jan. 1 to comply with the law.
A similar ban took effect in unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County at the beginning of July.
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