They have no hope or even intention of banning all plastics, they just want the "reduce" message to be heard clearly, because the audience isn't nerds, it's the American public.
And they'd love all the stuff that wasn't reduced or re-used to be recycled, but it's hard to convey that to a lay audience. "If recycling is so great, why do we need to reduce and reuse?"
They're just trying to simplify their message.
They have no hope or even intention of banning all plastics, they just want the "reduce" message to be heard clearly, because the audience isn't nerds, it's the American public.
And they'd love all the stuff that wasn't reduced or re-used to be recycled, but it's hard to convey that to a lay audience. "If recycling is so great, why do we need to reduce and reuse?"