You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that there are other ways to get rid of the stuff.
San Francisco was the first city in the nation to ban plastic bags in 2007. And now the city's ban on some commonly used single-use foodware plastics is in effect.
A trip to the store will cost you just a little bit more.
Two years ago Governor Jerry Brown signed a statewide bill to ban plastic bags. The kind used at the grocery checkout counter.