All your points are addressed in the piece. It doesn't really inconvenience me. I'll be fine. I'll pay the extra few bucks if I forget a bag. I'm fairly well off and I own a car so I can just dump the groceries directly into my trunk. It inconveniences a lot of people that don't have that luxury. Maybe an overworked parent that's coming home from work that needs to stop by a grocery store to pick up a few things. It's also a net negative for the environment since people will end up using bags worse for the environment as single use bags. This will not reduce landfill space.

The recycling point is about the fact that much of the US is greenwashing their actions by thinking they're doing some noble deed by recycling, when they're really just spending a lot of money shipping their trash to other countries that end up throwing a lot of it in the ocean when we could have a sane policy of using landfills.