There's a great planet money episode that analyzed the actual effect of removing plastic bags from grocery stores - and how it really doesn't match the hype. S

There's a great planet money episode that analyzed the actual effect of removing plastic bags from grocery stores - and how it really doesn't match the hype. Straight off, it claimed that at least 30% of the plastic "savings" was offset by people buying more trash bags (because people reuse shopping bags). Most of the rest of it focused on how many times you had to reuse non-plastic bags for them to actually be environmentally better than plastic. The numbers are quite striking. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-plastic-bag-bans-garbage https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-...