ARTICLE LINK:https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/09/711181385/are-plastic-bag-bans-garbage

1.According to the article, how many U.S. cities and counties have passed laws to ban plastic shopping bag?

2.According to a study comparing plastic use by California cities who banned plastic shopping bags to those that did not, plastic shopping bag use dropped by how much in cities that banned them?

3.The plastic grocery bag ban

a.Increased greenhouse carbon emissions.

b.Decreased greenhouse carbon emissions.

c.What is a greenhouse carbon emission?

d.I don't know.

4.The plastic grocery bag ban

a.Increased nonbiodegradable litter.

b.Decreased nonbiodegradable litter.

c.What is nonbiodegradable litter?

d.I don't know.

5."The Danish government recently did a study that took into account environmental impacts beyond simply greenhouse gas emissions, including water use, damage to ecosystems and air pollution. These factors make cloth bags even worse. They estimate you would have to use an organic cotton bag _____ times more than a plastic grocery bag to make using it better for the environment."

6.What were three ways consumers changed their behavior as a result of a plastic shopping bag ban?

7.Why did sales for 4- and 8-gallon plastic bags increase after the ban but not 30-gallon plastic bags

8.After reading the article, do you think banning plastic shopping bags is a good idea? Why or why not?

9.If a city imposed say a 5 cent tax on plastic shopping bags instead of banning them, how does this change the incentives of consumers? How will their behavior change?