Comment Correlation vs. Causation (Score 1) 533
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.