(A) Certain plastic bags banned. No retail establishment shall provide customers with plastic checkout bags less than 2.40 mils thick with the exception of restaurants involved in take-out business. Stores that are using compostable plastic bags may continue to do so.
(B) Substitution of paper bags restricted. A retail establishment subject to division (B) may substitute paper bags for the plastic bags banned by that section, but only if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) Nothing in this section shall prevent a retail establishment from providing customers with reused packaging materials originally used for goods received from the retailer’s wholesalers or suppliers.
(2) A prepared foods retailer may package prepared foods in a recycled paper bag, regardless of the availability of a reusable bag, in order to comply with food sanitation or handling standards or best practices.
(Ord. 01-2011, passed 4-4-2011) Penalty, see § 133-4