There are 2 separate externalities with different costs:
* CO2 emissions through burning fossil fuel
* plastic garbage with 1000 year lifetimes being littered around the planet
While we should absolutely be addressing both, you have to target these 2 problems separately
Edit: To clarify what I'd propose would be a tax on fossil fuel production, and then an additional, much higher tax on production of things like plastic bags
* CO2 emissions through burning fossil fuel
* plastic garbage with 1000 year lifetimes being littered around the planet
While we should absolutely be addressing both, you have to target these 2 problems separately
Edit: To clarify what I'd propose would be a tax on fossil fuel production, and then an additional, much higher tax on production of things like plastic bags