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Question 14 "Canada Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics" by Vicky Stein Some data exists on the effectiveness of city-wide plastic bag bans — San Jose, California, for instance, cut plastic litter in storm drains by 89 percent — but this kind of large-scale ban has never been tried before. The closest predecessor to Canada’s plans will be the upcoming single-use product bans in the European Union. The Canadian government is likely to follow the same research and recommendations as the EU, the official said. But environmental engineer Morton Barlaz of North Carolina State University posits that bans A) Use the article excerpt to answer the question. According to Morton Barlaz, how can a large-scale plastics ban policy potentially show fallacious reasoning? (1 point) Replacing banned single-use plastics with biodegradable plastics will not solve disposal problems. Charging people for single-use plastics could decrease demand for these problematic items. Increasing the cost of oil could decrease the interest in using petroleum-based plastics. Thinking about what alternatives do for

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According to Morton Barlaz, a large-scale plastics ban policy could potentially show fallacious reasoning by assuming that replacing banned single-use plastics with biodegradable plastics will adequately address disposal problems. This implies that simply substituting one type of plastic for another may not resolve the underlying issues associated with plastic waste, such as environmental impact and waste management challenges.