Single-use plastic shopping bags can hurt the planet. Now, many places have laws. People have to stop using these bags. What do you think?

We have laws in the UK, I stopped using them 8 years ago. They are still floating in the sea and killing sea mammals, still on rubbish tips as they take years to degrade.
It is lazy to use them, carry a shopping bag as most of us in the UK do now.

I think its the plastic manufactureres job to clean up what they started. Not the consumers job to not consume. Just like it should be the multi trillionaire oil companies who clean up all the polution in the pacific ocean.

You shouldn't start something you can't finish and you shouldn't blame anyone except the one who started it.

Anik, I grew up on paper bags, and we survived. The anti-plastic bag issue is a current fad. I use them, I often REuse them, and I recycle them. But I also find them quite useful. When compared to many other things we humans due that "can hurt the planet," plastic shopping bags are, to use a term of the great Kurt Vonnegut, "popcorn farts." Inconsequential.

Us living here "hurts" the planet. You using your computer "hurts" the planet. Should we all just kill ourselves to save the planet?