Could the Colorado Grocery Bag Law Change Soon?

I tend to shop at the grocery store often. More often than most people, in fact. Yet every single time I go to the grocery store, I always forget my reusable grocery bags. I am not sure if it's a bad memory or if I am still used to having bags readily available at the checkout all these years.

If you are anything like me, you buy more than you can carry out to your vehicle, so you have no other choice but to purchase a paper bag or two. Yes, they are only 10 cents each, but in this day in age, every little penny counts. Have you seen the price of eggs lately? It's insanity.

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Current Colorado law states that retailers like grocery stores and department stores are no longer allowed to provide single-use plastic bags. Brown paper bags can be offered to customers, for a fee of 10 cents per bag. Soon, that could all change.

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Colorado State lawmakers have proposed a bill to repeal the requirements for retail stores to charge a fee for recycled brown paper bags.  Currently, six cents for every paper bag sold at a retail store goes to local governments. The remaining four cents stay in the pockets of the stores that sell the bags.

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House Bill 25-1051 would repeal the requirements for stores such as King Soopers, Walmart, and Safeway to sell these bags. In a world where everything is costing more and more these days, I could use a little help when it comes to the simple things in life. Like not having to pay ten cents for a bag when I foolishly forget my reusable bags at home.