If government was serious about plastic pollution reduction, they would force the bottled beverage industry to go back to glass. Otherwise, it's just political window dressing.

Coca Cola pollutes the environment with every product they make. Go after them, not the human just trying to carry groceries home.

But fossil fuel production is also hideously polluting, and ends us with the carbon from the oil in the atmosphere. Producing plastic from oil means that those molecules won't (typically) end up as greenhouse gases.