They are reusable, which many people take advantage of. And it has dramatically reduced the number of tumbleweed bags clogging up nature.

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privatelypublic 2 days ago | parent [-]

Reasonable people already reused single-use bags. Trashcan liners, dog walk bags, cat scoop bags, etc.

Having recently been reminded that it used to be common to see eviscerated VHS tapes by roads, I've been reminded that we'll always have people who litter.

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orev a day ago | parent | next [-]

I’m not sure what your point is: because one type of litter is reduced, it doesn’t matter because people still litter in other ways?

In every place where plastic bags are banned, there’s a dramatic and obvious reduction in the amount of them clogging up trees, roads, fields, waterways, etc. If people need them for other purposes, they can buy them, while everyone else who doesn’t need them, doesn’t.

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ewoodrich a day ago | parent [-]

Yep, every so often I remember staring out the window on the highway in the car as a kid and seeing single use bags snagged on fences or trees pretty much anywhere inaccessible or not routinely cleaned.

I also catch it on B roll footage in movies or shows from the 90s/2000s a lot. It’s a specific type of visual blight I rarely ever see after those ultra flimsy single use bags that could be carried dozens of miles on a gentle breeze were eliminated.

(This children's book was written basically at the tail end of the era where seeing a bag flying could conjure the imagination)

https://www.amazon.com/Bag-Wind-Ted-Kooser/dp/0763630012#ave...

	▲	bombcar a day ago \| parent [-]
		The bag bans in general are good - and heavy bags aren’t that bad, especially since they don’t blow as far or as easily.

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MangoToupe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Many single use bags come with holes in them or develop them after a single trip hauling boxes with sharp corners home. Making the plastic a little thicker makes it last many times longer.