Several counties in Maryland (the non "yee-haw" ones that border the Chesapeake) have banned plastic bags. Styrofoam has been banned statewide for several year

Several counties in Maryland (the non "yee-haw" ones that border the Chesapeake) have banned plastic bags. Styrofoam has been banned statewide for several years. The amount of plastic and expanded polystyrene foam trash I pull out of the water and off the shore on Bay Cleanup days has fallen so drastically that it is almost unbelievable. What hasn't fallen is the sky. Or our freedom. Or the ability to clean out litter boxes. I'm a watershed steward and meetings and networking events I have found that my experience has been shared with almost every other steward I've talked to. Even those who look after waterways outside of the bag ban area have benefitted because most of the population lies within a bag ban area. If single-use plastic bottles were banned there would be practically no plastic debris in the Bay.