[coryrc]

So it's better that I need to pay for thicker bags just to put in my wastebasket to collect trash? How is that better than getting a t-shirt bag from the store to carry my items home, then use the bag to line my trash, then throwing the mess away?

By volume I throw away more diapers in a month than an entire lifetime of plastic bags. Fighting plastic bags is what the rich companies making actual pollution want you to focus on so you aren't fighting real pollution.

[nozzlegear]

> Fighting plastic bags is what the rich companies making actual pollution want you to focus on so you aren't fighting real pollution.

Why can't we fight both? Reducing both plastic bag pollution and "real" pollution seems better than just one or the other.

[pxeger1]

People have limited campaigning energy and politicians have limited political capital, so it probably does divert some attention from the bigger problems.