On: California bill would ban all plastic shopping bag...

[musicale]

Admittedly the thicker plastic grocery bags are somewhat sturdier garbage bags than the old thin ones which would sometimes tear.

[gnicholas → musicale]

That's true — it seems like they're engineered to be able to be reused maybe 5-10 times. But I pretty much always just use them once, as a trash bag. For my purposes (and those of many others here), it seems like it's a waste to make a fairly sturdy bag when it's only going to have one more use.