Single use plastics are not environmentally friendly.
Any chance of providing a link to that government study Pappy? What were the parameters, what was being compared? Can't really comment based on some factoid you've pulled out of your butt. Even if you've cleaned all the jizz off it.
Yes, plastic may be more environmentally friendly in some ways than glass.
When I was in Taiwan 15 years ago single-use plastic bags were already banned. Single use plastic bags have already effectively been banned in Australia, all the major supermarkets have stopped providing them already.