The point I'm making is many people will throw them away and this law may be removing one thing from a landfill only to put a more dangerous thing in there.
I genuinely don't know if those totes do better or worse in a landfill.
Thats some great whataboutism, but plastic bag bans have existed for over 20 years and there are hundreds of studies showing that theyre effective in achieving their goals of a better environment.
The US, like in most things related to the environment, is far behind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_lightweight_plastic_bags