Talking of banning plastic bags, I was in Co. Kerry in the west of Ireland when the ban on supermarkets providing free plastic bags had been in operation for a few months.
RTE Radio was interviewing the Chairman of the Irish Plastic Bag Manufacturing Association (or somesuch), expecting a tale of reduced demand, plummeting profits, redundancies and so on.
But the interviewee was very upbeat.
Seemingly, all the people who had previously used supermarket bags for bin-liners, dog sh1te receptacles and a hundred other purposes, had been forced to buy specialist bin liners, dog sh1te bags etc. and business was booming.
Just goes to show. Not sure what, but it does.