> State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, one of the bill’s supporters, said people were not reusing or recycling any plastic bags. She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic shopping bags trashed per person grew from 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) per year in 2004 to 11 pounds (5 kilograms) per year in 2021.
It looks like lots of people did toss plastic bags, even the thicker ones, away after one use. I wasnt living in CA but the thicker plastic bags were just thicker disposable bags to many people.