People are acting like we don’t throw stuff away anymore. You’ve replaced one item for something else. But it is worst, because we used to REUSE the plastic bags we’d get from the grocery store and put our trash in them after we were done. Now we need to buy separate bags specifically manufactured for this purpose which use thicker plastic to throw our trash away. Reusing an item is almost always more environmentally friendly than making a new item.
The plastic bag ban is one of those feel-good rules pushed onto consumers to make certain folks think they accomplished something.