New York City Council members are introducing legislation to require merchants to charge 10 cents for every plastic shopping bag.
Council members Brad Lander and Margaret Chin introduced the bill Tuesday.
Their measure would require stores to charge 10 cents for every plastic shopping bag used. The idea is to encourage people to start reusing the bags they already have at home.
Environmentalists say the bill would cut pollution and litter and save taxpayers $10 million a year in landfill costs.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a 5-cent charge for plastic bags in 2009. It was unsuccessful.
Many West Coast cities already charge for plastic shopping bags. Last month Los Angeles decided to ban single-use plastic bags altogether.
(AP)
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Recycle those Israeli סל (shopping baskets) and bring ’em to America.
Another tax on the people…. What happened to no taxation with out representation.
Just imagine shopping for shabbos or yom tov laden with lets say 10 – 15 bags of groceries – many times double bagged due to the weight of the items purchased – nice TAX. Fight this nonsense
this is one more story that reminds me how far behind the USA is. Many places have this. One example – CANADA. also, did you know that a day or two ago the population of the earth used all the resources that should stretch for this ENTIRE YEAR. yep. it happens every year now. its called something like overage day
Typical liberal wackiness at its peak. The bags provided by most stores are complete trash because they have holes as soon as you look at them.
Let’s save the city money, actually this would MAKE money for the city, and get rid of ALL these bleeding heart socialist liberal nanny state democreeps once and for all!
Then, maybe, people wouldn’t be running away from NYC to avoid Bloomingidiotberg and his ilk. Its only going to gwt worse as the socialists try to outshteig each other.
We need to DEFEAT liberalism once and for all!!