Sorry for not including this in my original post, but I'm mostly on your side with this one. I despise the EUs ban on small disposable plastic items as well, be

Sorry for not including this in my original post, but I'm mostly on your side with this one. I despise the EUs ban on small disposable plastic items as well, because all replacements are utter garbage barely able to fulfill their purpose, while not doing anything at all regarding the pure volume of plastics used. Banning the source of 0.001% of all disposed plastic is, in my opinion, completely pointless, when there are much bigger fish to fry. Really, all I wanted to tell you is that biodegradable plastics are a marketing scam you shouldn't fall for, just like plastic "recycling". Besides, I adapted the habit of always carrying two foldable plastic boxes in my car and two folded paper bags in my messenger pouch which I use since +5 years now anyways. The reason they are doing it is fairly obvious and laid out in the article you linked: People don't give a fuck. Its enough to pretend to care about the environment so people can blissfully ignore the real changes and get a fuzzy feeling of having done something. Politically, it's much easier to enforce such a ban on plastic household items than trying to get the industry to change, who will object much more vehemently and with much, much more leverage than the average consumer. Now that I think of it, some months ago I had a discussion about this ban with a women who legitimately thought plastic waste was somehow linked to global warming, as in more plastic waste => more global warming. Anecdotal of course, but it makes me wonder if this misconception (or close ones) are spread in the wider public perception or if this was just an outlier.