[GAB-1955]

It's not entirely wacko. Loose plastic shopping bags are a plague if they get into the rivers or the Bay, and the Bay's oyster and crab fisheries are a big industry in the state. I've seen the problem close up around Curtis Bay, where the landfill is. There was a similar problem with cleaning the Anacostia River in Washington, which of course feeds into the Potomac.

I don't think that a tax on bags is the best approach to reducing this form of pollution, however.

[Venturer]

I wouldn’t worry too much about the Oyster fisheries, they are damned near dead now.

The crabs made a slight increase last year, but it pretty much sucks too.

[Leep]

It’s not entirely wacko.

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I don’t think charging 5 cents a bag is going to srop people from littering. What it does is slip another tax in there. No, end.
Besides I thought thats why we pay taxes in the first place?

[Georgia Girl 2]

I agree. Once in a great while Europe has a better way to do things than we do. They have been using their BYOB policy for years and I personally think its a good idea. We try to remember to take our cloth bags into the store and most of the time we remember. The plastic bags are so wasteful and they never degrade. I am not an environmental wacko but the bring your own bag thing makes sense to me.