In yet another pander, this time to environmentalist sentiment, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has jumped on the ban-plastic-bags bandwagon. Regular folks are the losers yet again.

To be fair, the gov’s been telegraphing this for a while. When he helped kill the City Council’s plastic bag tax, he set up a task force to look at a statewide ban.

And, like all “independent” Cuomo task forces, it wound up reporting precisely what he wanted, finding that the ban would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, etc.

Problem is, the alternatives are no better: Producing paper bags uses markedly more resources, and they’re at greater risk of breaking before you get home — waste that uses up yet more resources.

And those cloth bags have to be washed regularly (with a genuine environmental cost) or they become seriously unsanitary.

Plus: Lots of New Yorkers “recycle” the plastic ones by getting at least one more use out of them — tossing the garbage from a meal into the takeout bag it came in.

These simplistic bans routinely frustrate their supposed purpose. Haven’t you noticed how the city’s new ban on styrofoam has prompted food vendors to switch to heavier plastic containers?

This is no way to save the planet.