We use plastic grocery bags for kitchen trash. I got one of those trash cans where the handles of the bags hook over to keep it in place. It’s just large enough to hold one day’s worth of trash, and it’s someone’s chore to take it out every day (we all take turns).
If we didn’t use these thin plastic bags, we’d have to buy garbage bags from the store, and those bags pride themselves on being thick, strong and Hefty (i.e. 1000 times less biodegradable than plastic grocery bags). Liberal ideas always seem to make things worse.
Perhaps the truth is that the plastic bag makers are spearheading this law. I think that most of the time, if you are able to drill down, someone is making $$$ at the bottom of these laws. There is usually corruption behind it.