We’re environmentalists: America's haphazard plastic bag bans are not working 

If you’ve visited a grocery store in the last year, chances are high that you saw single-use plastic bags swapped for another reusable bag (also made with plastic, but we’ll get to that later). Or maybe your local grocery store hasn’t even made this trade-off, despite the law stating they must do so. On your walk home from that very store, you probably saw plastic bags still littered along the street.  

This is all part of the current problem with single-use plastic bans on bags, straws...