While the focus of this video is on banning plastics because of their impact on marine ecosystems, the connection is made to the fossil fuels and energy used to manufacture plastic.

Comments from expert scientist: it's really about activism, and encouraging youth to make the world a better place. Excellent and laudable goals. plastic trash, and plastic bags in particular, are accurately portrayed as an environmental hazard.
The students repeatedly refer to petroleum-based plastic products causing global warming. It would be more accurate to say that the process of creating the bags produces greenhouse gases. Unless they are burned, the bags themselves don't produce carbon emissions. They missed an opportunity to discuss global ocean circulation, the trash island and the long decay time of plastic.