Plastic grocery bags in a shopping card. Photo via Wikimedia Commons A bill written by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to ban plastic bags at grocery store checkouts passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee Wednesday. SB 1053 is intended to close a loophole on the original ban passed in 2014 allowing for grocery stores to sell customers thicker plastic bags that could — theoretically — be recycled. But Blakespear said most of those also end up in landfills, subverting the intent of the first law. “Plastic waste is destroying our environment and jeopardizing our planet,” Blakespear said. “A plastic bag has an average lifespan of 12 minutes and then it is discarded,
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