[SustainableTompkins] Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags

[Wericclay at aol.com]

Not sure if this news already made the list.  Could there be a local  tax?  
Would it make sense here?
 
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
By ELISABETH  ROSENTHAL
The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry
their  groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on each
plastic bag grabbed at the  register.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/europe/02bags.html?th&emc=th


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