If you're anything like me when it comes time to do the weekly grocery shopping, then you're constantly forking over some extra pocket change to pay for a few single-use plastic bags to carry everything home in.

If that's the case, then we both might want to finally start remembering to bring those reusable bags we always seem to keep forgetting, because soon enough that pocket change we shell out for single-use bags is going to become noticeably weightier.

Beginning on Jan. 1, supermarket-goers in Washington State will pay an extra four cents per single-use plastic bag, despite there being no planned changes to their thickness, design, or overall durability.

The increase is part of a pricing phase-in attached to a law that was passed by the State Legislature in 2020 which outlawed many

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