.05 cents bag tax!!!
By Danna B.
@db20747 (43419)
Washington, District Of Columbia
February 22, 2019 11:45am CST
Here in DC there is a .05 cents bag tax!!! If they do not ask for .05 cents they could receive a $1,000.00 fine!! The tax was to clean up the Anacostia river!! Read This is actually working!! The River is much cleaner!!! Many people think this tax can now be removed!!! That's 30.00 per year more out of consumers pockets!! And that's quite a lotta money for folks on limited income!!! Do You have such a tax in your town that you think should be removed??!!
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
22 Feb 19
In the UK we have had to pay 5p for a plastic bag (unless we bring our own) for some time now. It is claimed that this has reduced the single-use plastic bag use by 86%.
New figures show sales of 5p bags in England continued to fall in 2017/18.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
22 Feb 19
@db20747 I think that a reduction of 86% speaks for itself. Many more people now bring their own bags when they shop. What we now need to do is to drastically reduce the amount of plastic used in packaging, especially plastics which can't be recycled or are not biodegradable. There are also all the unseen microplastics which get into the environment - tiny plastic granules in cosmetics and cleaning products, for example ... not to mention all those greetings cards with glitter on them!
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
23 Feb 19
20 cents is quite a lot! For about that, many supermarkets here will sell you a very sturdy bag which lasts for ages. I think that nearly everyone here brings their own bag now whenever they go shopping, even though the charge for a single use bag is only 5p.
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@lovebuglena (52167)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Feb 19
I remember I went to a pharmacy in DC and I'd have to spend 5 cents for a bag. And of course if you double bag that's 10 cents. I was surprised at that because the same pharmacy in NYC doesn't charge that. I think it was CVS but I could be wrong.
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@lovebuglena (52167)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Feb 19
@db20747 Only place where we are charged for bags in NYC (as far as I know) is Lidl and maybe Aldi.
@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Feb 19
Not tax but fees, they should remove garbage fee because they are not collecting garbage properly.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
23 Feb 19
@db20747 it's a big issue over here because our national government issued closure order to close open dumpsite but local government is not ready.
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@didinedhia (8482)
• Algeria
14 Mar 19
no we don't have any of this and , we have a dirty country
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@didinedhia (8482)
• Algeria
14 Mar 19
@db20747 people here are i dont know the word they dont care about cleaning their couintry
@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
22 Feb 19
Thank God we don't have that here.
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@FourWalls (86604)
• United States
22 Feb 19
We don’t have that in Kentucky. I’m amused how everything new is old again....remember “deposit” money on Coke bottles? Now there are a number of states that have “deposits” on the plastic bottles!
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@FourWalls (86604)
• United States
22 Feb 19
@db20747 — I don’t know because we don’t have it here. I would think it would be like returning glass bottles in the old days.
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 Feb 19
no such tax here, but there aint no waterways neither. i don't think the tax ought'a be removed. folks jest need to bring their own re-usable bags. 'fter spendin' 4 hours peelin' other folks plastic bags ('n other plastic trash...) off one 'f my fence lines from folks down the road, i wish they'd such a tax here. i despise plastic.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 Feb 19
@db20747 must be if'n the river 'tis cleaner. 't least they've the funds to do such. 'tis a pity folks don't tend their own trash though so's 't don't wind'p there'n the river ('r my fence line) to start with, eh?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Feb 19
That tax does not apply to bringing your own bags?
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Feb 19
@db20747 Okay. They charge for bags here.
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