Well well, if it isn't the unintended consequences of my actions

Plastic grocery bag bans might do more harm for the environment than good.

When Nova Scotia banned single-use plastic grocery bags a while ago, my first thought is that I’ll end up buying more plastic Glad and Hefty bags to make up for them. “Sobeys bags,” they’re called in this part of the world (even when the bag is from Walmart or Canadian Tire) made good garbage-can liners, car trash bags and - in a pinch - receptacles for taking your lunch to work. But now they’re gone.

NPR’s Planet Money suggests that I was right to be skeptical. At best, these grocery bag bans are a Band-Aid that don’t help the environment at all. In fact, they might be even worse:

Before California banned plastic shopping bags statewide in late 2016, a wave of 139 California cities and counties implemented the policy themselves. Taylor and colleagues compared bag use in cities with bans with those without them. For six months, they spent weekends in grocery stores tallying the types of bags people carried out (she admits these weren't her wildest weekends). She also analyzed these …