Ban plastic bags! Oh wait, never mind!

Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags.
California and Hawaii banned them, then New York. Then Oregon, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont passed laws against them. More than 400 cities did, too.
Why? Because plastic bags are evil, didn’t you know?
“Look at the damage done by plastic bags! It is everywhere!” complained New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
A Washington state senator cited “videos of animals choked by plastics, tangled in garbage!”