(Little Rock, AR) — They’re part of life almost every day for most of us. But one Arkansas Lawmaker wants to completely ban plastic grocery bags to reduce pollution and waste. State Senator Denny Altes of Fort Smith filed the bill Monday for the legislative session set to begin January 10, 2011.

The recycling business owner says people come up to him all the time saying they want somethig done about plastic bags like littering the road. His bill would encourage people to use more cloth bags by completely prohibiting plastic. But shoppers we talked to aren’t sold on the idea.

Deb’s Family Market in Little Rock could save a lot of money by switching to cloth bags. Right now they have to order about 18,000 plastic bags a month to keep up with customers’ needs. Assistant manager Roxann Morris said, “there are a lot of people who don’t like the plastic bags because they accumulate and they end up with just tons and tons of them.”

Morris sees how switching to cloth bags like these could be good for the environment and so do customers. But those we talked to worry about the added cost of replacing 99 cent cloth bags when they wear out. Shopper Laura Wright said, “I don’t want to continue to keep buying bags, I’m paying for the food.”