DC voting on Bag Tax.

Paper or plastic? Either way, you soon might have to pay a small fee (how come they never call a tax, a tax?) in D.C, which could join a small number of jurisdictions targeting the bags as a way to reduce trash. (Do you think it costs 5 cents to dispose of a bag in a landfill?)

The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on legislation that would require shoppers to pay 5 cents per disposable bag at grocery, drug, convenience and liquor stores. (I pay for a waste company to remove my trash to the landfill. They haven't tried to implement a special fee for disposable bags. Does it cost them more? Or is it that no one will defend the use of plastic bags, so the government knows they can get away with taxing them extra?)

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I loved paper bags. We were recycling those back in the 70's. Not by taking them toa "recycler", but by making bookcovers, wrapping for packages, drop clothes for art projects, the uses were endless. They were all folded after shopping and put away. There was always just enough for us to make it to the next week's grocery shopping. No one ever bought a garbage bag. The trash went out in paper bags to the metal garbage cans.