The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way.
Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the world. And in many cases, these efforts have been successful at eliminating new sales of thin, wispy plastic bags that float up into trees, clog waterways, leech microplastics into soil and water and harm marine life. But this environmental success story of sorts masks another problem.
However, he stressed that the single-use plastic bag epitomized throwaway culture and that alone was perhaps a reason to avoid their use. “If we are striving towards a sustainable future with less of the buy-and-throw mentality, then the single-use bag is not very consistent with that way of living. So in that sense, it might be reasonable to try to avoid it, even though it’s not specifically an environmental benefit from that choice.
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