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You are still talking about locally. I stopped at that in my initial post. I already agreed that this is effective way to curb limits on plastic shopping bags in a given localized area, but nationally, and internationally, it will remain much the same.
This was just a small sample test, and to classify it as "extremely effective", even when the own article didn't jump to that conclusion ("promising, but still needs ..." was the keyword I read there) is something I would not make just yet.
Manufacturers will continue the produce much the same way now as they did before. Now, will that translate to less distributor buyership? Perhaps, and is most likely to occur if a sanction/tax/law is inacted; will those plastic wares end up in another environment in some lesser developed country instead? I can't say. For years, though, decades probably even, the model of production for plastics, steel, lumber/wood, and glass, world over, have remained almost precisely consistent, regardless of consumption.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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