What are all the arguments against banning plastic bags?

And the plastic bag is EXTREMELY efficient. For every paper bag, 100 plastic bags can be produced for the same amount of embodied energy. Now, there are other factors than embodied energy, like physical damage to the environment and how easily the product breaks down. read more

Several cities globally have begun banning the use of plastic bags while some have enforced restricted laws against the use of plastic bags because of the negative effects of the use of their usage. Besides, the use of plastic bags is considered as one of the great issues that humans are facing in their contemporary life. read more

Banning plastic bags on a large scale could also endanger at least some of the 30,000+ plastic bag manufacturing and recycling jobs in the United States. Reusable Bags Come From Overseas The National Center for Policy Analysis says most (at least 95 percent) of the reusable bags are from overseas. read more