I've had a similar discussion with the wife.I heard the news talking and talking all about plastic garbage in the ocean as being the biggest problem that needs fixed.
Ban plastic bags, ban plastic bottles, ban plastic straws, ect.
I never once have heard them mention banning the cause of the problem which would be to ban dumping garbage into our rivers and oceans.
Connie just pointed out to me that we are the generation that invented plastic bags in order to save millions of trees that were used to make paper bags.