My woke city council did the same thing - collecting 5 cents on every paper bag as well so they can build climate change re-ducation camps (really, they say it's for "environmental education").
Cutting down trees is frowned on here too so soon we won't be permitted to use paper either. I hardly ever re-use paper bags (beer & other liquids ruins them) but often re-use plastic ones.
I was either in North Jersey or NYC a few months ago and stopped at a Home Depot - they were charging $0.25 per plastic bag... at the self checkout, you actually had some sort of vending machine to get the bag. I said f'it and carried my purchase
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