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Why the plastic bag ban's a sham
I’m all for conservation of resources, but I agree with Peter Gorrie on this one - the plastic bag ban in Toronto is ridiculous. People don’t use less bags, they just acquire them in different ways.
The article raises many points supporting this argument, although I think the following is particularly telling: Ireland has a 36 cent bag tax, but “even with it, the country imported more bags last year than in 2002, when the tax came into effect.”
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