So ABC7 News put them to the test.San Francisco was the first city in the nation to get rid of single use plastic bags in 2007. In 2014, the rest of the state would also ban the so-called urban tumbleweed.
But then, because of the fear of spreading the coronavirus, for a short period of time, any bags brought from home were not allowed. I asked one shopper why she didn't bring her own bags. "I'm going to try to remember that," she told us. She didn't even remember paying 10 cents per bag.The plastic industry claims these heavy-duty plastic bags can be re-used up to 125 times. That's how, by law, they are allowed to be called "reusable."
Each bag must be able to carry 22 pounds, at a distance of 175 feet, 125 times. So for the purpose of this experiment, we decided to test one, going to from point A to point B, 125 times. At the very end of our test, oddly enough, the handle broke.