Plastic bags bans work at banning plastic bags, granted. But banning plastic bags is not an end to itself, and is pointless if the end result is not reduced pla

Plastic bags bans work at banning plastic bags, granted. But banning plastic bags is not an end to itself, and is pointless if the end result is not reduced plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Ideally, those reductions would be commensurate with the effort involved in the ban, compared to other actions you could take with the same costs. I note this article doesn't say anything about the actual impact. It's consistent with the hypothesis that we banned plastic bags as a token gesture, because we mistake movement for progress, and now we're patting ourselves on the back while nothing is actually improved.