Have you been checking the numbers? Have you been going to the stats every day to look at hospitalizations, seven-day averages and (gulp) even deaths? Figuring that the end of summer was a good time to go back and pore over the latest statistics and charts, I pulled them all up to get a good idea of where we are, four months into New Jersey’s single-use bag ban.

Ship Bottom Beach Patrol’s Barnegat Bay Challenge had great conditions on Monday night. Photo by Biggy.

And it turns out there have been zero deaths and not a single hospitalization caused.