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They passed a bylaw here about ten years ago adding a 5¢ fee per bag 'for the environment' with the idea that the penance of paying for your bags was outweighed
by err4nt 12y ago
They passed a bylaw here about ten years ago adding a 5¢ fee per bag 'for the environment' with the idea that the penance of paying for your bags was outweighed by the blessing your of donation, which was going counterbalance your minor environmental transgression and balance your eco-karma again.
I don't mind paying for bags if I know the 5¢ is actually going to make an impact on the world I live in, but I fear that over the years every bag I've ever paid for has done nothing but pad the profits of a company already dedicated to destroying the environment I live in and instead offsets the 'eco-karma' cost to me.
- dublinben 12y agoWhy haven't you gotten reusable shopping bags in the ten years since that fee was instated? That's the purpose of these programs.
- pizza234 12y agoIt's not about eco-karma or mamacorps, and it's not actually a fee/tax. It simply prevents the fact that if you give something for free, people will waste it - it's a consumerist instinct. I've lived through both conditions and I found horrifying how people would take large amounts of bags, at stores, and napkins, at restaurants, just because they were free. Set a minimal fee, and clients will start to take just what they need, and no more (which paradoxically, is the opposite instict - not to waste money).