Has anyone else wondered about our single use plastic bag ban, we now pay for a paper bag that can only hold a pack of crisps or it tears open, when they get home they are filled with rubbish and tossed, because they barely make the one trip. The weight of the bags must have increased tenfold( like per 1000 etc), so shipping them around the globe must cost a small fortune (books are heavy enough to move in a box) At least those grey woolworth's plastic bags went in a holder or another bag to be reused as rubbish bags, carrying stuff around to places, We didnt buy garbage bags for years, they stacked in the wheelie bin easy and went out every day so no odours. Now the ones we get tear before you get them out of the bin, so bloody hopeless.
Paper production is fairly labour and process intensive and if you believe the lefties, Toxic, I remember all the paper mills in Tassie's north closing and leaving a lot of people out of work.
And to top it off, everything like the meat trays mentioned above are single use due to what the contents are-raw meat, chicken etc.