Virtue signalling. Everyone uses plastic bags, everyone has a whole bunch of them under their kitchen sink. Politicians took a highly visable problem that affe

Virtue signalling. Everyone uses plastic bags, everyone has a whole bunch of them under their kitchen sink. Politicians took a highly visable problem that affects the majority of their constituency and "solved" it. It doesn't matter if it's an actual problem or not to politicians, it only matters if their voters think it's a problem.