I don’t see that. Where I live, plastic bags had gotten so thin and shitty over the years that they already weren’t suitable to reuse as trash bags any longer. It usually doesn’t matter that my grocery bag has holes but I do care if my trash bag has holes. So I already had to buy single use bags for trash

Current reusable bags are thicker and don’t usually have holes but are still unsuitable because they cost 10¢ for each

you do realize the rolls of garbage bags are much thinner and lower quality, right? Shopping bags have to be thick, strong, and printed in nice colours.
Meanwhile garbage bags can be made of out the lowest grade recycled plastic possible and extremely thin, because they don't have to bear much weight and it's specifically going into the trash anyways.

...You could also just buy paper bags for your trash..

You don't still collect them from random places? A bunch of places near me still use plastic bags, either the heavier ones or the plain old thin ones even if they're not supposed to. But they're few and far between so it's not a problem. I save those ones and use them for the bathroom trash can.

You don't have to buy garbage bags, you can just put stuff in the bin unbagged.

The heavier plastic bags do contain more plastic which I guess is arguably worse but they get reused and don't get picked up by a slight breeze and wafted into the nearest waterway.

oh definitely i walk everywhere too so it helps.

actually i went to scotland last year on vacation and got some sainsbury's bags and i still use them. they're super durable.

What he is saying, that bags that were complimentary = calculated loss, now fetch an actual income for the companies.

Did I say I personally spend five to ten cents per bag or did I say that's how much companies now make per bag used? An item that used to be given away is now a product. The bag ban has led to increased profits for major grocery retailers in all areas where they've been implemented.

Honestly how dare you insinuate I don't bring my own bag. I've been rocking canvas bags since the mid aughts. I've been supplying my own bags since back when you used to have the cashier pick them up confused and look for a price tag, or worse ignore them. You don't know me, you don't know my life story, and you definitely don't get to make assumptions about my grocery shopping habits, thank you very much!

Here's an anteater, reserve your judgements for it!

When it had a plastic bag ban in place, the town of Laredo, TX saved something like a quarter or half million dollars a year on waterway cleanup because there were so many less plastic bags blocking everything.

Then the legislature and maybe state Supreme Court struck down the bans.

No it's not hard, but I still very rarely see people supplying their own bags. Instead they're paying five to ten cents per bag which used to be free but now is a vector for profits to the company, and which used to be made of thin flimsy plastic but is now thick plastic that will take much much longer to degrade. Like I said these bans have been great for the grocery stores profits. It's nice that they do quantifiably reduce plastic waste, though.