You are being blind. Those campaigns were fig leafs from the outset and if you are interesting in real action on shutting down single use plastic economy, you s

You are being blind. Those campaigns were fig leafs from the outset and if you are interesting in real action on shutting down single use plastic economy, you should know better than to wag your finger at those who complain about how ridiculous focus on carrier bags and tooth picks has been. Those campaigns only antagonise some consumers against the general concept, and gave others a false sense of inclusion and progress. They could never have achieved any practical impact on the single use plastic economy and this is why they got singled out for attention. Since the 90s a great social fuss has been raised over whether feather-light plastic carrier bags are used to help carry a shopping load (and eventually bin the remains). While since then, essentially everyone has rather been forced to continue to buy products which include ever increasing amounts of plastic packaging, amounts which utterly dwarf a couple of bags or straws or toothpicks or whatever the latest prescribed moral obsession is supposed to be. Ever increasingly, small portions of food are sold in thick plastic packets, every individual snack/bar is contained in plastic, and every pack of bars in another layer. It is even increasingly rare and difficult to source tea bags, tissues, and surprising products like toothpaste without plastics manufactured into them. The dissolution of the un-compostable and practically un-recyclable plastics economy, can not wait until everyone agrees to dutifully avoid the latest convenience item where 'effort' is systematically focused. Every little counts -> LITTLE. And that is what the wider industry counts on when it comes to these campaigns. They are nonsense obsessions promoted to waste attention. I spent last year cleaning up a beach too btw - fishing and shipping garbage overwhelmingly.