Plastic bag bans work, new study shows

https://www.popsci.com/environment/plastic-bag-bans-working/

4•geox•3h ago

Comments

incomingpain•2h ago

You ban plastic bags and now people buy reusable grocery bags(ok good?), but everything that goes in the reusable grocery bag is wrapped with plastic.

You now dont have regularly plastic bags, so you end up buying garbage bags and ziplocs to replace their original re-use.

You havent eliminated anything at all. You havent banned anything. You have in fact expanded the amount of plastic bags in circulation by doing a plastic bag ban.

mouse_•2h ago

we banned plastic bags so now you have to purchase a bag with a hundred times as much plastic, only to throw it away after three or four uses because they still don't really hold up, and plastic bags are designed to be thrown away by nature.

tragic situation, really.

magicalhippo•2h ago

Here in Norway we now have a new problems after they increased the price of plastic bags to ~$1.

Our grocery bags are quite thick compared to what I've seen in UK and US, and was also used for garbage disposal. We also have colored bags for food waste and plastic, all which get sorted at the garbage facility.

After the price hike people now buy thin garbage bags, which promptly disintegrate during transport and handling, stopping the expensive garbage sorting machine.

Also, some instead started use the free colored bags for regular garbage, ruining the sorting deal.

But, we do buy a lot less grocery plastic bags. Just nobody's counting the other types so who knows if it's any better over all.