Non plastic Britain

For many of us on here when we were growing up we didn't really have many things that came in plastic, milk was in glass bottles as was most soft drinks, veg was loose and your mum either had a shopping trolley or a bag. Nowadays everything seems to be in plastic and now the government wants it all phased out. The bottom line is we as consumers are going to pay of it , glass is massively more expensive that plastic and of course its great that we are trying to save the oceans but what about the rest of the world are they on board with this?