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Plastic Bag Fee; new in D.C.
Topic Started: Jan 3 2010, 07:07 AM (295 Views)
Optimistic
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Anybody else have this?

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Plastic bag fee in effect in D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bring a bag or face a 5-cent fee per bag.

Jan. 1 is the start of Washington's new fee on disposable bags.

District businesses that sell food or alcohol must now charge customers five cents for every disposable bag they hand out. Proceeds will go to cleaning up the Anacostia River.

Patrons can skip the fee, however, by bringing their own bags. Stores may also offer a 5-cent credit on a patron's bill for every bag brought.

Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the fee into law in July, saying it would cut down on disposable bags that dirty the river.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/02/plastic-bag-fee-effect-dc/
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We get credit for using the reusable bags.

The reusable bags work much better too.

http://www.giantfood.com/about_us/community/environment/index.htm

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Reusable Bags
All Giant stores sell reusable bags for .99 and insulated bags for $1.99. In addition, we deduct five cents from each customer's total shopping bill for any shopping bag they bring from home for packaging their groceries - whether it's a paper, plastic or reusable bag.

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Yes. We had this for decades already. The difference is that our fees are much higher, usually 20 cents or 50 cents per bag. The bags are of a much better quality, though, so you can easily reuse them many times. I have a set of cotton bags that I use when I go shopping. The shopping bag fees are also used very consistently. I don't know a single food store where you don't have to pay for bags.
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Yup, I get the credit at Giant for those reusable bags, too. I just hate getting any more of those plastic things. And yeah, they are pretty sh1tty for durability.

I can't wait until those plastic bags are a thing of the past.
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I wish my part of California (South Bay Area) would start a fee on plastic bags. I think most of us can get the idea of bringing our own bags especially if there is a fee otherwise.

I am surprised this part of California has not started the fee on plastic bags, since we have other environmental concerns -- our gasoline cost more here.

The highest credit I can receive if I bring my own bag is 5 cents per bag (Target, Whole Foods). Safeway only gives a credit of 3 cents per bag.

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Optimistic
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I think to get people to make the switch from plastic to bringing their own bags, a penalty will be more effective than an incentive. The 5 cents Giant gives me for each of my two reusable bags doesn't help me remember to use them. Being charged for crappy plastic bags which I already have a huge pile of at home WOULD help me remember.
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I wouldn't mind so much except I seem to always get the baggers who think each individual item should get its own bag. I end up with 15 plastic bags for four bags worth of groceries. Mywife always reuses them for can liners in our kitchen garbage so that helps somewhat.
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JBryan
Jan 3 2010, 08:44 AM
I wouldn't mind so much except I seem to always get the baggers who think each individual item should get its own bag. I end up with 15 plastic bags for four bags worth of groceries. Mywife always reuses them for can liners in our kitchen garbage so that helps somewhat.
See! The stores hate them as much as we all do! They try to unload as many of those things off on us as they can!
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We don't have that here but we bring our own canvas bags for shopping anyway.
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George K
Jan 3 2010, 07:25 AM
"Paper or Plastic, sir?"

"Doesn't matter. I'm bisackual."

Sorry, 'bout that. I just had to.
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I wish my part of California (South Bay Area) would start a fee on plastic bags. I think most of us can get the idea of bringing our own bags especially if there is a fee otherwise.


An interesting point of view, paraphrased: "I don't like plastic bags so I think the Government should tax them heavily. Going a bit farther, I believe the Government should tax heavily or prohibit anything I don't like."
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I like this sort of thing. I need to be encouraged to get in the habit of carrying around the canvas bags. Not out of conservational principles, just because I don't like being bothered to throw all those bags away.
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Jan 3 2010, 09:23 AM
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I wish my part of California (South Bay Area) would start a fee on plastic bags. I think most of us can get the idea of bringing our own bags especially if there is a fee otherwise.


An interesting point of view, paraphrased: "I don't like plastic bags so I think the Government should tax them heavily. Going a bit farther, I believe the Government should tax heavily or prohibit anything I don't like."
Yes, that's sort of how democracies work.
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Proceeds will go to cleaning up the Anacostia River.


Bah hahahahah. Good freaking luck.

Seriously though, I don't mind a few plastic bags. They serve a purpose at times. I'm not against the five cent fee, though.
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Glad I live in Virginia.
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That's great, Opti. It took me a while to always remember to bring my bags (now they go right back in my car after unloading groceries), but it's a habit we can all learn. What I really like is that just about everywhere, I'm asked if I want, or need, a bag. Such a difference from always having things stuffed so quickly into yet another plastic bag. No, I don't really need a bag for my one jar of honey and bag of coffee.

One of the best things I've found was a small nylon bag from whole paycheque that folds into itself and takes up very little room. I can throw that in my purse, or in a coat pocket on days when I'm not planning on doing any shopping, but might end up buying one or two things.
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