Food banks get extension, not exemption, from NJ plastic bag ban
Revised legislation gives food banks until November to stop using plastic and paper bags and provides them 500,000 free reusable bags.
Maura Toomey
Ban advances on plastic bags, Styrofoam in NJ – paper bags, too
Plastic straws would survive, though only available by request. Supermarkets would be required for to give out reusable bags for free for two months.