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Originally Posted by August
Charging for plastic bags is not going to address the litter problem which is what this is all about. Now a deposit system like that on cans and bottles might but i'd bet it would cost a lot more to administer than an outright ban.
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Yeah, that's the downside to implementing a plan to return a bag and get your deposit back. You couldn't just have a bin where people drop them off. And I don't think most people would stand in line at a customer service counter to get a few cents for something they can just toss out without any hassle. Most people wouldn't even bother bringing them back to toss them in the store's recycling bin.
I also wish they'd do a better job of training cashiers and baggers how to bag stuff in the first place, I try to go through lanes where I do my own bagging otherwise I buy a handbasket's worth of groceries and end up carrying out six bags with two items in each one. Of course if the bags weren't so flimsy to begin with the baggers might be willing to risk using fewer of them.