Quite honestly, I don't use those unless it is something small like cherry tomatoes, nuts, cherries etc. I don't consider myself a tree hugger, but I do try to limit my exposure to using items that will wind up in the garabage. I kind of concur with other commenters that the plastic bag ban was a knee jerk reaction to an imaginary problem. When on the island, I swim in the ocean every single day, weather/surf permitting. I never find plastic shopping bags in the water. I live right next to a beach park,.guess what I find, especially after a holiday weekend, you guessed it beer bottles and cans, so do we outlaw them? Worst yet is all of the lost fishing line left behind by ignorant shore line fisherman. Fishing line is by far more hazardous to marine life than plastic bags. I was there for about 3.5 weeks over the holidays and picked up 40+ Lbs of lead sinkers in the reef....think of the amount of line and hooks associated with that many sinkers.....resulting in lots of tripod turtles