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I mostly agree with this
those grocery bags always had another purpose and got used several times, or at minimum just once as a garbage bag
now I have to buy dedicated bags, which are much more material per bag. and there's still basically nothing being done about all of the plastic waste in single use products that account for much much more material usage, like water bottles as you said.
I will admit that seeing trees full of plastic bags on a windy spring day after the snow has melted is pretty disheartening. but I don't think it's any more disheartening than the plastic trash strewn across the parks and near the garbage cans, and arguably the bags are even easier to clean up.
like yay we got rid of thin plastic bags that had multiple uses, and every fucking vegetable in the grocery store is wrapped in plastic or in a plastic container