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There was just an article about how this happened in New Jersey as well. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/25/new-jersey-plastic-bag-ban-study

• crazygringo 3y ago
  Oh wow -- "New Jersey's plastic consumption triples after plastic bag ban enacted, study shows". And most people drive there. In NYC it might be even worse than just tripling.
  • cratermoon 3y ago
    That article sources the same report commissioned by the plastic industry lobbying group, so take it with a large grain of salt.
    • Wowfunhappy 3y ago
      ...wait, wouldn't the plastic industry be delighted that people are using more plastic?
      • phatfish 3y ago
        Indeed, which is why it is strange they are pushing this narrative that reusable is "bad", rather than keeping quite.
        • cratermoon 3y ago
          Maybe the narrative is obscuring something with statistics. If reusable doesn't really make plastic use go up, and that bag bans are effective in reducing plastic use, the industry opposing them has an incentive to make it look like they are ineffective. They're using the same tactics the tobacco industry used to counter the facts about cigarettes.
      • dashundchen 3y ago
        Yes, which is why they'd have a interest in publishing studies that make bag bans look useless or counterproductive, because they want to persuade people not to pass or to repeal bans.