Decline of the Smiley Blue Bag

OK the photo is from either Moscow or Irkutsk.
My dog didn't use her poop bag on our walk this morning so I filled it with road side trash. Diet Pepsi cans predominated, followed by plastic Coke bottles and Dr Pepper cans. If this was a deposit state I could have made at least a buck. No grocery store brands because there aren't any big grocery stores. There were a lot of water bottles. These are a real nuisance when they still have water in them because the screw top is often still sealed because the drinker used the little baby bottle nipple to drink. They are hard to unscrew. I have to open them or I can't stomp them flat. There were also those foil pouches that they put pre cooked burgers etc in at convenience stores, and the boxes they use for mini pizzas. Virginia Slim cigarette packs, and American Spirit. Budweiser led the beers, with Coors close behind. Not as many beers as soft drinks, and the road isn't even a high school escape route.
One thing that is now notably absent is the blue Walmart bag. Gone are the days when the rather beautiful blue with the smiling yellow face could be seen on every barb wire and sagebrush, and blown by the thousand against chain link fences. They made the country look like Mongolia, where people tie sky blue scarves around trees, posts, rocks etc etc for personal and religious reasons. I think Walmart must have been embarrassed by their predominance. It must have been more than a year ago when the white bags began to gradually appear. I miss the blue bags.