A friend of mine runs a small paper plant that makes grocery bags - a few years ago they almost went out of business - now with the plastic bag ban spreading, he can’t keep up with the new business.
I have family members in the logging business. What with the bad publicity against the paper bag industry, schools using fewer and fewer paper books, and newspapers going out of business, the logging industry has felt decreasing demand for wood.
Trees are a cash crop. What’s next...save the corn?
Stories like your post make me wonder if the environmentalists pushing these plastic bag bans are getting financial support from the logging and paper manufacturing industries.