Steve's barking; Could this be the end of plastic bags

California just banned plastic bags being given away to carry ones groceries away. Plastic bags are bad for the planet. Birds eat them and chock to death. There in the ocean fish die because of them.
New York City isn't going that far, just trying to put a ten cent tax on them. In effect banning them from the poor.
What can one do to carry their groceries home? Of cause carry them in reusable cloth bags. When carrying your groceries home you had better clean them good,or one might end up salmonella or some other bacteria.
I may be wrong but what most people do with those plastic bags is to use them for something else, like throwing out the garbage. How will one throw out their garbage? Do what the middle income and rich people do, buy plastic bags.

Do I have a solution for our plastic bag problem, of cause not, I understand that those bags can last as long as the planet, but I also understand solutions have negative consequences.