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No shit! You mean that Nespresso Coffee Pods and plastic water bottles are single use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
people dumb.  then people want blame other dumb people.
Stop buying the shit.  It starts with you.
And here I am still sucking on a soggy paper straw... 
While juggling the 3 items I bought at the store (because plastic bags are no longer allowed), as I walk down the street... 
And yet it's made no difference, and only gotten worse? >

Use a grocer that has paper bags.  Trees are renewable.  They make paper bags out of trees (sorry if that is obvious but I think the younger generation might not realize this yet.)