People consider it a shocking or impossible policy to ban single use plastics, but future generations will look back on plastics the same way we do at lead paint or asbestos. We're poisoning ourselves and our planet.
And what are we supposed to do against this, raise in arms?
In my country we have two big parties but they are in cahoots (practically have the same progressive opinions on everything) so we can't even vote to have these authoritarian policies removed. There obviously are other parties but it would take something big, or reaching a tipping point, to break this cycle. It's not as easy as "no one cares". Many of us care but are powerless.
What did they replace takeout containers with? Where I live, they replaced them with "paper" containers that are lined with teflon...
But are a big net loss for any reason you can have to the ban.
If you make an awareness campaign, people will replace a lot of it with glass, metal, or plastic that actually gets reused. But they keep using a lot of single-use things. If you out-right ban them, people go directly to what can out-right replace them, and it's always those things.
So what is the food from the supermarket packaged in? I assume mostly in single use plastics.
Only if there is an alternative, which doesn't exist at the moment. And no, plastics are way less dangerous than lead point or asbestos, its main problem is its sheer quantity.
Paper bags at the supermarket, food came in glass or butcher paper, that kind of thing. We got along fine.