Are Plastic Bag Bans Garbage?
A national movement to ban plastic bags is gaining steam, but these restrictions may actually hurt the environment more than help it. Human nature, hard truths, and what kind of bag to use anyway?
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It was only about that plastic bags became standard at U.S. grocery stores. This also made them standard in sewers, landfills, rivers and . They clog drains and cause floods, litter landscapes and kill wildlife. The national movement to get rid of them is gaining steam — with passing laws that ban or tax them since 2007. recently became the second U.S. state to ban them. But these bans may be hurting
