{"id":65367,"date":"2026-04-30T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/cupertino-applies-plastic-bag-ban-to-more-than-grocery-stores\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:30:09","slug":"cupertino-applies-plastic-bag-ban-to-more-than-grocery-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/cupertino-applies-plastic-bag-ban-to-more-than-grocery-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupertino applies plastic bag ban to more than grocery stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives\u00a0 don\u2019t always work as well. Samiullah Memon, owner of Oakmont Sandwiches and Coffee, said adapting to Cupertino\u2019s evolving rules has been both costly and confusing, particularly as guidance around acceptable materials has changed over time. \u201cAt first we tried switching to biodegradable plastic, but the city told us no plastic at all \u2014 even if it\u2019s biodegradable,\u201d Memon told San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. He said businesses were initially given about two years to adjust, but now there is a risk of getting a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/cupertino-applies-plastic-bag-ban-to-more-than-grocery-stores\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives\u00a0 don\u2019t always work as well. Samiullah Memon, owner of Oakmont Sandwiches and Coffee, said adapting to Cupertino\u2019s evolving rules has been both costly and confusing, particularly as guidance around acceptable materials has changed over time. \u201cAt first &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}