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Re: Nickel Charge for Plastic/Paper Bags |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Sep 29 00:55:53 2016, in response to Re: Nickel Charge for Plastic/Paper Bags, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Thu Sep 29 00:34:52 2016. They work in the sense that, businesses get a government mandated windfall in an area that used to be a cost center, and that they discourage use of plastic bags.However, replacing plastic bags with reusable ones is at best environment-neutral. At worst, it hastens public health decline, as people carrying things like raw meat in the bag then go and reuse it the next week for vegetables. With plastic bags, this isn't even a thing. It also makes self checkouts awkward - how do you charge for the bags? I guess they could make them reusable-bag only stations. It's also another tax on the poor. The extra 25 cents a shopping trip for 5 bags means nothing to my financial stability, so I would likely continue to get as many bags as I need. Hell I'm too lazy to rinse out my soda containers at work so I only bother to redeem nickels for water bottles. However, the less well off are the ones who will ration their bag usage and might end up in a position where they're dropping things on their way home just because they tried to save a nickel. |
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