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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.) >

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. >

Wouldn’t it be easier and more effective for companies to not be allowed to make this shit? Or at least have to pay for the cleanup and cost of this pollution?
When we realized CFCs were destroying the ozone layer, we didn’t say “well people need to stop buying products that contain CFCs!” We banned that shit and it WORKED. >

Sure.  But in the meantime, with CFCs, there were hundreds of thousands of people who stopped buying the shit because of the harm it was causing.  
If you, yourself, can not make coffee with a coffee pot and grinds, and you just HAVE to have a coffee pod three times/day, the industries that make the pods will not stop making them and if the government tries to ban them then they will lobby against the ban and your pods will remain on the market.  
If you can not fill a re-usable water bottle at home and carry it with you throughout the day without sucking water out of a single-use plastic bottle, then plastic bottled water will continue to thrive and flourish. 
It's time to put on adult panties and stop waiting for mom or dad to take away your candieswhen they are the cause of your cavities. >

Are you saying I'm sucking my drink through a mushy paper straw for nothing? >

You and me both knew that with saying stuff like "dumb people" we cannot fix this issue, so we should and must replace this single use plastic inside our life with better alternative like a nice bag for day to day grocery shoping, carrying good metal water bottle, recycled paper bag, and so many small things that helps. But and that is a big BUT it will not get better because using this stuff is more expensive then single use plastic and not a single big company gonna change a packaging to help the environment. It will effect and economy and people livelihood because everything became more expensive.
So no until we find something alternative to replace this single use plastic bags or everything with it.
We should try but we cannot fight this situation alone. >

Did people think we would produce less each year? 
We're just getting started.  We haven't peaked