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California to ban all plastic shopping bags in grocery stores by 2026 .
Plastic bags pollute the environment and break down into microplastics that contaminate our drinking water and threaten our health.
In 2014 , California banned plastic grocery bags in 2014 , but a loophole allowed shoppers to still be able to purchase thicker plastic bags.
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