Next to fast food packaging, plastic bags seem to be the second leading cause of litter in our area.  Strange too, you never seem to see paper bags on the road side.  One reason for that is that paper bags are not as "mobile" as plastic bags.  Have you ever seen a paper bag stuck up in a tree?  Doubt it.  Plastic bags are a nuisance due to the fact that they are so light.  A week does not go by that I don't find one stuck in a tree or a bush somewhere high up enough that most people can't easily get them down and into the trash. 

I would like to say that the benefit of plastic over paper is that plastic bags are waterproof but most plastic bags we get have holes in them or easily rip so this argument seems to fall quickly.

Bottom line I would like to see them banned and then right after that I would like to pass a law that fast food beverage containers be subject to a CRV like fee.  Might not keep people from throwing them on the road but at least it would give someone an incintive to pick them up.