Shopping bags available for sale at Stop & Shop in Union. Beginning May 4, 2022, grocery stores, food service businesses and other retail stores in New Jersey are prohibited from providing or selling customers with single-use plastic carryout bags.Tuesday, March 29, 2022.Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media

New Jersey’s plastic bag ban will go into effect in just two weeks, and residents still have a lot of questions.

Just one third of residents say they know “a lot” about the upcoming ban, a Monmouth University poll found, and one third of residents haven’t heard about the ban at all.

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