Washington shoppers have spent approximately $2 million on paper and plastic bags in the past year, one nickel at a time.
The city's 5-cent tax on bags began last January, but consumers spent much less pocket change than predicted to pay for bags from grocery, liquor and convenience stores. City officials had guessed the fee would raise $3.5 million to clean up the city's Anacostia River before the end of 2010, but it has raised a little more than half that.
City officials said they were surprised so many consumers appear to have changed their habits, using reusable bags to carry their goods.
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I like campaigns that will help save the earth and nature. One of these is this refraining use of plastic bags instead use the paper bags.
ReplyDeleteThere are even biodegradable plastics of which most of the malls and department stores are using. We can't really make a big change with our small acts to protect our environment but lets just continue of what we are doing now for in the near future they will surely follow our footsteps and slowly the small deeds that we have...together it can create a big change that counts.
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