When they said they were going to ban plastic bags I was looking forward to the paper bags they had when I was a kid. Those things were indestructible. I wouldn't mind paying ten cents for one of those. The paper bags they have now are crap and fall apart if you look at them wrong.
The plastic bag ban has been a total farce and has resulted in wasting more plastic than ever because just as many people use their own bags as before and each bag contains multiple times more plastic.
There is no doubt in my mind that implementing the new green deal would end up being one giant plastic bag ban farce on a massive scale. Weren't liberal ecologists responsible for us using plastic bags in the first place to save the forest? Stupid, stupid, stupid! Don't they realize that more trees were planted to grow those bags; not less? I miss those indestructible paper shopping bags with the hemp rope handles! I guess I'm just sentimental in that way...