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Another example is that in many places, the ban on plastic bags wasn't a ban on plastic bags, it was a ban on free plastic bags. Just charging a couple cents p
by kalleboo 3y ago
Another example is that in many places, the ban on plastic bags wasn't a ban on plastic bags, it was a ban on free plastic bags.
Just charging a couple cents per bag makes people reconsider it, even when they're buying $100 worth of groceries and alcohol.
- onemoresoop 3y agoIn the US people use the same amount of plastic is being used and most are not shy to pay a few cents for per bag except for the same minority who are conscientious and bring their onw reusable bags. Imo the cost of comfort is too cheap. If bags costed $1 people would start to bring their own reusable bags in larger numbers.
- Our_Benefactors 3y agoIt’s fundamentally a regressive tax. Increasing it would just exacerbate this inequality.
- kalleboo 3y agoI guess this is just another way that Americans are just very different from the rest of the world hah