Paper or Plastic Bags?

Green fee in Seattle

Paper or plastic? It's cost you.

There is a tugg of war between citizen and city government in Seattle, the capital of green America. Because New bag tax will be effective in 2009.which is environmental policy

Under the new bill, It would require drug, grocery and convenient stores to charge 20 cents per disposable bag.. and Seatlle would be the first city in the USA. to tax them. Other cities, such as San Francisco, have banned certain disposable bags.

City Mayor Greg Nickels mentioned that 'we know it won't solve global warming, but a small change in behavior can make a big difference' and he gave an example which was the Dublin, Ireland case. a similar tax reduced bag use by 90%.

However, according to the recent study, a lot of Seattle residents already recycle ags or reuse them for sack lunches and cleaning up pet dungs. also, they are replacing disposable plastic bags with more durable, fabric-like polypropylene bags

According to a city survey from late 2007, 63%of Seattle residents oppose the tax. and last week, citizen group submitted a petition to stop the Seattle bag tax with 20,000signatures.


Regarding this issue, one of the experts said that The seattle tax is the forerunner of a green trend.