Anne Wheelock, thank you so much for your letter.  It took me on a stroll down Memory Lane.  I vividly remember the day my plastic bags sprouted legs, walked over to the side of the road, and lay down.  One of them decided that using a bush as a hammock would be great fun. When I was at the beach, I saw other people's plastic bags get up off their behinds and march themselves into the ocean like a bunch of hatchling sea turtles.  Lesson learned:  The whole plastic bag ban is a conspiracy perpetrated by plastic bag manufacturers to sell more plastic bags and prohibit stores from giving them away "free."  It's not the bags, Anne!  It's what people do with them, whether they get them for free or buy them in huge quantities at Costco.  Financial advice:  Google companies that make plastic bags and buy stock today!