Plastic bag ban?

I found an editorial on the American Statesmen website. This article talks about how "single-use" plastic bags, could be banned and intends to the public. We're talking about the plastic bags everyone uses whenever they go grocery shopping. The author's argument is whether we should ban plastic bags or not. The problem with plastic bags is that it makes everything difficult, because it tangles with the sorting machines. It would cost way too much money to pay workers to physically remove thousands and thousands of bags.
There is an idea of how to solve this problem that would change the mindset of the ban and I agree when the author says, "If, however, all those individual plastic bags came to TDS packed inside a stronger, more durable plastic stuff bag, they would be easier to pull from the recycling stream and more manageable to store and bundle."
 In my opinion, this seems somewhat reasonable because it's much easier to recycle and it doesn't cause any problems sorting out the materials. But I think the public might find it a little bizarre having to put their plastic bags inside another stronger bag. I believe we should have a separate container just for plastic bags. Just like we have separate containers for our trash and our recyclables. We would just set the plastic bag containers curbside, how we normally would do for our trashcans. That way we won't have to waste money on those more durable and stronger plastic bags for our bags. It would seem much more reasonable that way.