Due to the excessive use of the hazardous plastic bags, the environment is facing a widespread problem of pollution. Most of the countries are either banning their use or putting a charge on plastic bags in order to minimize their use.

Santa Monica voted to ban plastic bags at various retail stores in 2011. The City of Los Angeles followed with their own plastic bag ban in 2014.According to the City of Santa Monica website, the average free plastic bag is used for only 12 minutes before being thrown in the trash or released as litter. It also reveals that less than 5 percent of plastic bags are actually recycled. Littered plastic bags stay in the environment for decades and cause pollution. The law also states that plastic bags will no longer be available at grocery stores, clothing shops or other retailers, although restaurants may use them for takeout food. Smaller plastic "product bags" with no handles, like those used for produce, are allowed for public health reasons.

Lately, the Pico and Pavilions stores in Santa Monica and the local region have been selling customers "reusable" plastic bags instead of providing the usual, more environmentally-friendly Paper Bags. These plastic bags are made of thicker plastic as compared to old and free grocery bags and costed 25 cents. The paper bags, when they were available used to cost 10 cents.

The use of plastic bags became a hot issue when local marine biologists and other environmentalists condemned the eventual settlement of these bags in storm drain outlets and the ocean. Plastic bags harm many types of marine and flying wildlife, some of whom eat the bags, clogging their intestines, and others of which get caught in the bags.

Mr. Mark Gold, president of Heal the Bay quoted that the Santa Monica council's leadership today shows that local governments are going to address this critical issue despite threats from industry and state inaction.

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