Not only that, but people still throw them out anyway. That's what the City of Austin found out when they banned single use bags a couple years back, and HEB (l

Not only that, but people still throw them out anyway. That's what the City of Austin found out when they banned single use bags a couple years back, and HEB (largest grocer in the area) started selling reusable bags: people were still treating them as single use (presumably because they were under a dollar and readily available at checkout) and throwing them out, causing more waste than the single use ones.