Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on shorelines

Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by trollbridge on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:16PM (#44340791)

It’s hard to understand why couldn’t just have ecological canvas or jute bags.

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by Ray20 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @06:47PM (#44341308)

Because they are about 400 times more expensive to produce than plastic bags with comparable characteristics?

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by BrenBarn on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:30PM (#44342337)

But then the people using them can pay that 400x price rather than making society as a whole pay for the externalized environmental cost of a plastic bag.

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by Ray20 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:22AM (#44345034)

There is no externalized environmental cost of a plastic bag.

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Re:Plastic bag bans and fees reduce harmful bag litter on sh... by scoofy on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:43PM (#44340948)

It’s hard to understand why we can’t do a lot of sensible things, like not blasting tiktok on the bus or not speeding on local streets the in our cars.

Most people are happily ignorant of anything that doesn’t reinforce their priors.

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