Sure. A number of these examples that I'm going to give are contained in our report.
California is an interesting example, because a number of local communities in California banned plastic shopping bags. After Napa County did that, they found that it reduced their marine pollution quite significantly. Then San José banned the plastic shopping bags. That worked out for a while and they found that it was reducing the amount of litter in their waterways and stormwater systems. Eventually, the entire state moved and passed the law.
It's pretty easy to just replace plastic shopping bags. We've done it here in Victoria. There's not a lot of real inconvenience. All you have to do is remember to bring your reusable bag to the store. You just put it on your doorknob for when you head out the door. It's just a change of habit.
Also, then, places such as Seattle moved to ban plastic straws, just because the straws are such an obvious waste, with such a short use, and they're thrown away. Seattle did that. Then the United Kingdom worked up to that, and the European Union is moving in that direction on a whole bunch of these single-use plastics in the near future. San Francisco moved to ban styrofoam food ware and that's worked out well.
The one thing that I think is a bit problematic is the reliance in the European Union on allowing so-called compostable plastics to be used. When places such as France banned disposable cutlery, they said that you could have compostable stuff. The technology of that I think has not lived up to the promise in many cases. People in Victoria have analyzed so-called compostable cutlery that is not composting in the composting facilities of the capital regional district.