Once again, correlation is NOT the same as causation. Have any readers been to a country that has a problem with plastic waste? It's disgusting. Banning plastic bags is a tiny-tiny-tiny step, but it still has environmental benefits. Single-use paper bags are still available -- nobody's making anybody reuse their chicken-tray plastic -- and the hysterical idiots at the SF Chronicle who first picked this up need to use their brains for once.

Unfortunately, at a grocery in the suburbs, one can ONLY receive plastic bags. We're simply moving the waste around now.

If humans are indeed the resultant work of an intelligent designer, then why do we need toilet paper?