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To me it seems like the simple solution is to just require sellers to accept disposal of items (or parts of items) they sold.

If people started bringing back zillions of plastic bags to Krogers for disposal you bet they'd figure out reduce or re-use real fast.





Plastic bags separated from other trash/recycables brought to the store wouldn’t be much of a problem for Kroger. I don’t think consumers would bother unless a deposit was involved.

In my state, grocery stores literally do take plastic bags back, they have standardized drop off bins and everything.

And I have read accounts that some of those stores simply toss them into the garbage in the back.

Plastic film used to be recycled specially where I live. They stopped doing that because there was no market.



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