zoomerang II
War Child
Plastic Bag tax:
Ok here in Ireland they have just introduced a plastic bag tax. 15c per bag, so each time you go to the supermarket, if you want three bags to carry your goods home, they add 45c to your bill. It doesn?t apply to small bags for carrying fresh or hot food items.
Of course you don?t have to buy the bags, you can bring your own, reuse them, and a lot of shops are selling heavy duty ones for say 30c.
I think this is one of the most ingenious taxes introduced. No one is making you pay it. Supermarket bags are an evil scourge ? they don?t break down at all, and we manufacture billions of them, throwing them away. The tax proceeds will go to an externally managed environmental fund to help in other projects.
On a funny note I?ve see people walking down the road with their shopping in a big black bin liner and also stuffing so much into one bag it inevitably splits.
Apparently a lot of other countries are looking at the tax and may introduce it if it works here.
Opinions?
Ok here in Ireland they have just introduced a plastic bag tax. 15c per bag, so each time you go to the supermarket, if you want three bags to carry your goods home, they add 45c to your bill. It doesn?t apply to small bags for carrying fresh or hot food items.
Of course you don?t have to buy the bags, you can bring your own, reuse them, and a lot of shops are selling heavy duty ones for say 30c.
I think this is one of the most ingenious taxes introduced. No one is making you pay it. Supermarket bags are an evil scourge ? they don?t break down at all, and we manufacture billions of them, throwing them away. The tax proceeds will go to an externally managed environmental fund to help in other projects.
On a funny note I?ve see people walking down the road with their shopping in a big black bin liner and also stuffing so much into one bag it inevitably splits.
Apparently a lot of other countries are looking at the tax and may introduce it if it works here.
Opinions?