The minutiae of the law seems to frustrate business owners more than residents, who, three weeks into the new rule, are resigned to toting around backpacks, bright green recyclable Giant Food bags or paying the levy. But some still aren’t used to it. “It’s very aggravating,” said Rosa McNair, 80 years old, as she walked out of Target with a five-cent plastic bag. “What are you going to do, carry all your boxes on the bus?”

Murray, Wall Street Journal, 1/25

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