So in Croatia, starting yesterday, single-use plastic bags in stores (the ultra thin 15 um bags) are no longer free, they now cost 1c. Those bags are omnipresent in rolls at supermarkets, open air green markets, etc. They are used to buy fruits, vegetables, at butchers and fishmongers. People are generally rather unhappy and feel like this is just another green tax and extra cost to pay. I could get behind charging for grocery bags to promote use of reuseable, textile bags (this was implemented a long time ago), but this seems a lot. On the other hand, it has been said in media that an average croatian uses about 160 of these bags per year while denmark is at like 30, portugal at 15 and belgium at something like 5 bags a year.
What is the situation in your country? Are these bags free or not? What do you use? I get reuseable bags for fruit and veggies, but for meat and fish? How do you get by using a single digit number of those per year?