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ASU2003 · 05-09-2010, 07:33 AM

I have noticed that a few more people are bringing their own bags around here, but even though one supermarket gives you $0.03 cents, it has only saved 75,000 bags at that one store in the last year (They have a sign with the total on it).

I bet if they charged people, instead of hiding the tax in the prices of the goods, that more people would see it add up, and use the better bags that might cost something up front, but are better in the long run.

And I still think that every state should implement the 0.10 cent per aluminum can fee. It is so much more cost effective to recycle aluminum than it is to mine new aluminum, yet I pick up lots of cans around Ohio on the side of the road, yet none in Michigan when I was growing up.

05-09-2010, 07:33 AM	#5 (permalink)
ASU2003 immoral minority Location: Back in Ohio	I have noticed that a few more people are bringing their own bags around here, but even though one supermarket gives you $0.03 cents, it has only saved 75,000 bags at that one store in the last year (They have a sign with the total on it). I bet if they charged people, instead of hiding the tax in the prices of the goods, that more people would see it add up, and use the better bags that might cost something up front, but are better in the long run. And I still think that every state should implement the 0.10 cent per aluminum can fee. It is so much more cost effective to recycle aluminum than it is to mine new aluminum, yet I pick up lots of cans around Ohio on the side of the road, yet none in Michigan when I was growing up.