Urban Shocker
Doyenne
I'm eBaying my LCBO bags next year.
You were always paying for the bags. It's not in the markup anymore. Grocery prices are intensely competitive.
What bothers me about this isn't the idea of reducing plastic bag use, it's just the cynical and horrible way we're going about it. What a bleak opinion of society if the only way to influence behaviour is through nickle and diming.
From reading your posts i wouldn't accuse you of having the sunniest outlook on society yourself.
Not being funny here, but how would you go about influencing this behaviour in a manner as effective as the $0.05 charge seems to be?
TK, so I can conclude then, that you would do nothing and hope for the best. Thanks for sharing.
TK, it is a fact, not a matter of opinion, that a 5c bag levee will seriously diminish the use of plastic bags, and nothing else will. If you think otherwise, you are mistaken.
And using words like "social control", "pervasive" for a 5c bag levee - you're sure you're not a 89 year old retired army general, because you're thinking is so often ... dated. Yes, "dated" is the right word.
You would argue that this isn't social control - or at least social conditioning?
*shrug*
Every law is. What's your point?
The only difference is that more often these days the social agenda is coming from the bottom up rather than from governments or corporations, a pleasant change if you ask me. More and more, people are actually a driving force for change for their own good, rather than simply pawns in the global power game.