“Grocery stores, restaurants and retail shops should not be permitted to distribute plastic film bags of any thickness at checkout.”
Five studied bans cut almost 300 plastic bags per person per year. The catch is in the fine print. Weak bans leave loopholes and push shoppers onto paper bags that take 3-4 times more energy to make. A ban that still lets a store hand out a thicker plastic bag is a rebrand, not a ban.