This is a distracting argument and it is the same argument the industry used to try and create outrage agains the EU single-plastic ban. N.B. medical supplies

This is a distracting argument and it is the same argument the industry used to try and create outrage agains the EU single-plastic ban. N.B. medical supplies were exempt even in the earlier draft proposals. This was never a discussion point. Single-use plastics should be banned where they are used purely for economic reasons. For cases where industry chooses to use plastic, then they should also take up the environmental cost of disposal/recycling. The only reason plastic is economic in the short term is because industry is not paying for all the externalized costs associated with disposal, recycling, environmental and health degradation, etc.