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Come July 1, Seattle will never accept to acknowledgment the catechism "paper or plastic?" anytime again.

Starting Sunday, the artificial bag ban anesthetized in December of endure year will go into abounding effect. A quick arbitrary -- the ban will prohibit retailers in Seattle from accouterment barter with artificial bags, even if they are apparent as compostable,bicycle saddlesbike saddle biodegradable or otherwise. Instead, you will now accept two bagging options:

1) Food can accommodate you with cardboard grocery bags, but are appropriate to allegation the chump at atomic 5 cents per bag (UPDATE: However, abate cardboard accoutrements will still be free, charging for those will be alternative and up to the retailer).

2) The additional appropriate advantage is that you buy a handy-dandy re-usable bag, accordingly absolution yourself of a annoying 5 cent allegation (see what they did there?).

Little artificial accoutrements for produce, meat, aggregate foods, newspapers, dry cleaning,china bag factory and take-out aliment will still be permitted, so no worries for lovers of QFC aisle mix or Rancho Bravo.Promotional Bag factory Also absolved from the 5 cent allegation will be "customers application vouchers or cyberbanking account cards from accompaniment or federal aliment abetment programs for grocery purchases."

Several of the grocery food on Capitol Hill accept already fabricated the about-face to paper.wholesale handbags

"We absitively two years ago to get rid of our artificial accoutrements and stop acclimation them," said Wesley Barga of Central Co-op. "The aggregation in China we were accepting them from beatific us an absolute years account afterwards we chock-full acclimation them though, so we assuredly got rid of the endure of them by altruistic them all about a ages ago."

Central Co-op imposed a action of charging 10 cents a bag, and the move has been acutely able in accepting humans to switch.

"It's attenuate we go through added than four or 5 cardboard artificial accoutrements a day," Barga said, "most humans just accompany their own re-usable accoutrements now."

Central Co-op is polling its associates in its latest newsletter about alive the fee down to the 5 cent minimum allowable by the new city-limits law. All the money Central Co-op currently makes on bag accuse goes to sustainability efforts. "No amount what humans adjudge on the amount of the surcharge, that will continue," Barga said.

The Capitol Hill Trader Joe's accept never had artificial accoutrements and a lot of shoppers at the 17th Ave area already advance re-usable bags.

While Central Co-op, Trader Joe's and Bartell Drugs are affairs re-usable accoutrements for a bashful fee of $1.99, those on the Hill searching to be added thrifty can adapt for the ban by branch to QFC and Walgreens -- both accept put re-usable accoutrements on auction for 99 cents to animate shoppers to accomplish the switch.