All you gotta do to know the plastic bans were bullshit is to look at the sheer volume of disposable plastic that goes into your shopping cart.

Shopping bags and straws were targeted because they impact consumers, not corporate supply chains.

It's the classic move of individualising a systemic problem to distract people from focusing on the actual source. It was pioneered with littering, then recycling, carbon footprint, and others. The research shows it works to take the heat off of corporations, and the "solutions" that get sold to us don't work. None of them do.