Plastic Bag Bans Work: Well-designed single-use plastic bag bans reduce waste and litter, includes case studies that show that bans across the country have reduced plastic bag litter by one-third or more when implemented, and encouraged the use of more sustainable options.

Single-use plastic bags are wasteful and harmful to both the environment and our health. Sea turtles, fish, birds and marine mammals often mistake them for food. And they make up a large portion of the hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash that finds its way into our parks, waterways and beaches every year.

Even though banning single use plastic bags may not clean up our oceans, it is certainly a start to reducing the amount of future pollution. It is important for people to start to drop their plastic habit, which means decreasing the amount of it in circulation.