Some chains, like Lucky and Delano's, offer bags of higher-grade plastic -- thicker and stronger than the typical shopping bags seen in exotic locales like the Target in Daly City. They can legally do so in San Francisco by calling the higher-grade plastic reusable. That's it: thicker "reusable" plastic, and you're good to go.
The bag ban's author, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, on Tuesday called for an end to this "loophole" in the original bag ban's language. Mirkarimi asked the Department of the Environment to strengthen the existing language in a way that would really, truly and for real this time prevent all supermarkets from using plastic bags.
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