Bring your shopping bags to Maui when you come because we now have a plastic bag ban in effect since January 11, 2011. You won't be asked "paper or plastic" anymore when you go grocery shopping in Maui county. Those handy plastic grocery bags were just causing too much mess on our lovely island.
If you ever visited our landfill you would know what I mean. Because it's so windy at the dump, too much stuff was blowing away and flying over the cane fields and even landing in the sea. We all know what happens when this plastic ends up in the ocean... a big mess that's hazardous to wildlife! Turtles, fish and other marine animals eat the debris, and they can become entangled and die. It's just a bad bad thing, and we chose to do something about it.
Please remember to bring your own bags when you go shopping on Maui (and Kauai). You will still be offered paper bags, and cloth bags are always available for purchase. I noticed Walmart is selling cloth bags for only 50 cents now!
We can make a difference, and keep a lot of plastic out of our landfills and our environment.
Thank you for helping to keep Maui beautiful.
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