renewed the law through 2020

of a coroner who last year said he had “probably” died at the hands of another.lers or retailers to help pay for Gucci cluthesstaff. While the law allows for fines if stores do not comply, no violations have been issued. “Work on the program at this point consists of a few weeks of data by entry-level staffers when the nth were surveyed as they entered or left eight grocery stores, Stephanie Scafa, a city zero waste analyst, told the council on Wednesday. Fifty-four percent of the 173 shoppers said the ban had led them to bring bags to the store more often than they had before the ban, she said.

 Thirty-five percent of respondents said the ban hadn’t changed their habits, Scafa said, with 11 percent of the shoppers saying they had brought bags to the store before the ban took effect. The bottom line: The ban appears to be getting more people to use reusable shopping bags, Scafa said. “In terms of waste reduction, which was the purpose of this ordinance, we believe it was effective,” she told councilors. Retailers also were surveyed about the ban, including whether they thought the minimum 5-cent charge for paper bags encouraged people to bring bags to the store. reports come in during the spring,” Oldfield said.

 Last year, legislators renewed the law through 2020. But in doing so, they did not give the recycling department, known as CalRecycle, more authority or money to improve oversight. The state’s raw data from the Gucci duffle baglast three years appears to show the weight of bags bought by retailers has decreased, while But it was a case that confounded various experts who tried 400 times to lock themselves into the bag, and one claimed that even Harry Houdini "would have struggled" to squeeze himself inside. Not all were convinced by the impossibility of the feat. A news reporter was able to lock herself into an identical North Face bag to the one Mr Williams was found in without assistance.