We banned them in New Zealand. Total bullshit without any cost/benefit analysis. Like many, I now buy plastic bags for bin-liners. Total number of plastic bag

We banned them in New Zealand. Total bullshit without any cost/benefit analysis. Like many, I now buy plastic bags for bin-liners. Total number of plastic bags used is the same! Even worse: so many people I know need bags when shopping: they buy them and throw them away. The cost of the substitutes (one time paper, or multi-use plastic) is fucking mental. Apart from the wasted time, and wasted purchases from dropping an unbagged bottle on the ground. I'm certain the environmental cost of the policy is way higher than the environmental cost of plastic bags. Yet I suspect the policy is very popular, with a bunch of people that don't seem to understand reasonable compromise.