Sorry dude (Terry), while the bags are reusable, there are billions of them, abandoned, and looking for family to love them.

Banning a nuisance, or adding a small surcharge, does not a communist city make. I mean, if we were being asked to carry all of our groceries in our hands and pockets, that's one thing. But there are many alternatives.

It is important to note, though, that when Whole Foods stopped using plastic, with the hopes that customers would transition to reusable bags, they saw a very sharp spike in requests for paper bags. I haven't seen any update from them to say if demand for paper bags has since dropped.