{"id":25551,"date":"2025-10-27T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25551\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:35:07","slug":"consumers-have-the-power-to-solve-californias-plastic-bag-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25551\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers have the power to solve California&#8217;s plastic bag problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To the editor: Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta&#8217;s lawsuit against plastic bag manufacturers is, no doubt, important (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-10-17\/bonta-settles-with-plastic-bag-producers-files-lawsuit-against-others-over-recycling-claims\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cPlastic bags sold in California stores aren\u2019t actually recyclable, Bonta says,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cPlastic bags sold in California stores aren\u2019t actually recyclable, Bonta says,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 17). Plastic bag companies should be held accountable for deceiving the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But, consumer behavior plays a big part too. The sad truth is that most people still don&#8217;t bring their own bags to the grocery store. The solution to the plastic bag problem requires only one simple action: Bring your own bags. Full stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kristen Kessler, Ventura<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/story\/2025-10-27\/california-plastic-bag-lawsuit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta&#8217;s lawsuit against plastic bag manufacturers is, no doubt, important (\u201cPlastic bags&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,19563,19564,9608,9687,2794],"class_list":{"0":"post-25551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-chinatown-in-san-francisco","12":"tag-eric-risberg","13":"tag-plastic-bag","14":"tag-plastic-bags","15":"tag-rob-bonta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}