The biggest problem with these bans is that "single use" bags almost never are. Everyone I know reuses them for various things, and not just as bags.
The case against plastic bags is straightforward. Plastic pollution kills at least 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million seabirds every year and entanglement in plastic and other types of litter kills roughly 1,000 turtles per year.
The case against plastic bags is straightforward. Plastic pollution kills at least 100,000 marine mammals and 1 million seabirds every year and entanglement in plastic and other types of litter kills roughly 1,000 turtles per year.
That's something for littering laws to deal with.