Is There a Way to Reduce the Use of Plastic Bags?

I had this exact same discussion with the anonymous other person in my house, cause weee actually listened to that section of the last podcast about recycling and straws and plastic. And i said, there were two possible solutions to any problem. One is you're just going to charge people more and more money for plastic bags until it just become so draconian that they will start, you know, 50, it's 50 pounds for a plastic bag. Ok, well, im jus going to bring one from home for that. Or you do what they do when, like, they design footpaths at universities and stuff, and they don't actually pave the footpaths until they look where