If the goal was reduced emissions, these bans were an abject failure. Single use plastic bags are really efficient from an energy use perspective. Their replace

If the goal was reduced emissions, these bans were an abject failure. Single use plastic bags are really efficient from an energy use perspective. Their replacements take significantly more energy to produce and the re-use is unlikely to ever balance out, as they often require hundreds or thousands of uses to be equivalent to a single use bag.