1. Who signed the California plastic bag bill into law this week?

2. What exactly will the law require?

3. What is significant about the passage of this law?

4. Who opposes the law? Why?

5. What type of impact do you think this law will have on families doing the grocery shopping (inconvenience/extra cost)?

6. Schools have been successful in teaching kids to recycle. Do you think they could be just as successful with a “Don’t litter” campaign? (Could a lot of the plastic bags and other garbage that makes its way into waterways be stopped by a concentrated effort to avoid/clean up litter?) Explain your answer.

7. Opponents of the bill said the statewide plastic bag ban is government overreach. What do you think of this assertion? Explain your answer.