Starting next January, grocery stores and other stores will have to start charging 20 cents for each paper or plastic bag. The city is trying to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags to reduce waste and litter.
This new fee shouldn't impact us much because we've been using reusable bags since we lived in Texas. They were on sale for $1 each at the grocery store and have saved us from using quite a few plastic bags since then. Before we got them, I remember we accumulated quite a few plastic bags, so not having to deal with plastic bags has been nice.
When we used our reusable bags in Irving, it felt kind of odd, as hardly anyone used reusable bags there. However, here probably about 1 in 3 people use reusable bags, and that number will probably increase once this law takes effect.
We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
- Troy & Lesley H
Monday, August 4, 2008
Disposable bag fee
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the government shouldn't interfere with the marketplace. the market should determine when people decide to start using reusable bags.
now granted, this will take several centuries. and of course, once the cost of producing plastic does rise, as a good Republican society we'll have to start subsidizing the plastic bag companies. to do anything less would be anti-capitalism.
RE: start subsidizing the plastic bag companies
now that is funny.
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