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> After Australia banned plastic bags, they found an increased amount of plastic in their landfills. Why? Because people used to re-use them as trash bags and w
by freetime2 3y ago
> After Australia banned plastic bags, they found an increased amount of plastic in their landfills. Why? Because people used to re-use them as trash bags and were now buying much thicker dedicated plastic bags for the purpose.
Do you have a citation for this?
- jhugo 3y agoNot GP, but single-use plastic bags have been banned in Indonesia too, and the shops/restaurants/etc now send you a new, substantially thicker, reusable plastic bag with every single delivery, with no convenient mechanism to reuse them. Classic case of excessive focus on one part of a much larger system.