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Do plastic bag taxes or bans curb waste? 400 cities and states tried it out.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1427" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/20/20806651/plastic-bag-ban-straw-ban-tax" target="_blank"><strong>Do plastic bag taxes or bans curb waste? 400 cities and states tried it out. Vox</strong></a></p><p></p><p>And will it work for plastic straws? </p><p></p><p><strong>The policy:</strong> Plastic bag bans and taxes</p><p></p><p><strong>Where:</strong> In more than 400 states and cities in the US</p><p></p><p><strong>In place since: </strong>2007</p><p></p><p><strong>The problem: </strong></p><p></p><p>Plastic bags are forever. The thin sacks that hold our groceries, toothpaste, and takeout meals have little hope of being recycled, and instead just might be reused as liners for our trash cans or containers for our dogs’ waste, after which they find themselves either blown into storm drains and rivers or hopelessly clogging landfills. According to one 2009 estimate, some <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/jclapp/publications/doing-away-plastic-shopping-bags-international-patterns-norm-emergence-and" target="_blank">100 billion of these bags were used a year in the United States and somewhere between 500 billion and 1.5 trillion worldwide</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1427, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/8/20/20806651/plastic-bag-ban-straw-ban-tax'][B]Do plastic bag taxes or bans curb waste? 400 cities and states tried it out. Vox[/B][/URL] And will it work for plastic straws? [B]The policy:[/B] Plastic bag bans and taxes [B]Where:[/B] In more than 400 states and cities in the US [B]In place since: [/B]2007 [B]The problem: [/B] Plastic bags are forever. The thin sacks that hold our groceries, toothpaste, and takeout meals have little hope of being recycled, and instead just might be reused as liners for our trash cans or containers for our dogs’ waste, after which they find themselves either blown into storm drains and rivers or hopelessly clogging landfills. According to one 2009 estimate, some [URL='https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/jclapp/publications/doing-away-plastic-shopping-bags-international-patterns-norm-emergence-and']100 billion of these bags were used a year in the United States and somewhere between 500 billion and 1.5 trillion worldwide[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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