Bansturbation
This is bansturbation, pure and simple.
I’ll expand on this later.
UPDATE: Plastic bags are the end of the life for plastic. The plastic used to make them can be used for nothing else. Hence to ban plastic bags would leave us with tons of plastic that can be used for nothing else.
However, this does not mean that incentives not to use plastic bags shouldn’t be promoted. Instead of banning them or charging for their use, provide incentives for re-using or recycling plastic bags - schemes which most supermarkets already have in place.
Banning them is never going to work, and really works against the green principle in the end. Plastic bags are used by many people for many things - bin-liners and the like - and thus many do get re-used. The plastic used to make plastic bags is at the end of it’s lifespan. It cannot be used for making anything else any more, so they make bags from it - and plastic bags can only be made into other plastic bags.
It is more the other plastic waste that needs to be reduced rather than plastic bags, so that we don’t end up with so much plastic that is only fit to become plastic bags. Don’t just go into bansturbation mode.
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In Ireland you have to pay 25 cents for a plastic bag in a shop. Ever since the levy was brought in people started to re-use their bags. No more plastic bags blowing down the street, what a relief!