My gym has a dispenser of plastic bags for wet swim trunks, "made from recycled ocean plastic waste". (They're thin and easily torn, but if I'm careful, I can r

My gym has a dispenser of plastic bags for wet swim trunks, "made from recycled ocean plastic waste". (They're thin and easily torn, but if I'm careful, I can reuse the same one for a month or two before it wears out.) The same material could probably be used to make sturdier shopping bags if they increased the thickness and added handles. Exceptions to these anti-plastic bag ordinances should be added for this type of recycled bag, to encourage its use. Similarly, make an exception for recycled paper bags. Just banning all disposable bags seems overly broad and counter-productive.