Plastic Bag Tax In Australia

Since 1985, America has used plastic bags due to them being waterproof and having handles making them easier to carry goods. Paper and plastic have always been a huge controversy in supermarkets through the preference of customers. Some customers prefer having the paper bags standing up straight in the trunks of their cars. Other customers prefer the plastic bags because of the handles making it easier to walk home and carry their goods. Although both preferences are fine, all customers know the dangers of the plastic bag. Banning plastic bags from stores and replacing them with only paper or reusable bags, will reduce corruption of organic products, reduce CO2 emissions from the creation and destruction of the plastic and prevent harm

Many of these issues however, can be addressed and even resolved in several ways. Nowadays, a number of countries have begun to impose taxes on plastic bag consumption, with few even banning the use of plastic

Imagine this. You are walking down the street and you come across a chain link fence, and you can't even see through it because of the grocery bags covering it. This is actually a very common occurrence which could be prevented with a simple twenty-five cent bag tax. Governments should implement these grocery bag taxes because grocery bags pollute the Earth, there are better alternatives, and they are difficult to clean up. Supporters believe that the bag tax will be beneficial to everyone.

It is now clear that a bag tax may be a neccessity for the reasons of our diminishing environment, our government needs more funds to do what is needed, and it will assist the poor. There is many ongoing studies of our environment, all of which have concluded that we are destroying it. In order to fix this menacing problem our government will need an ample amount of funds to do so. With this new tax, it will essenctially force the poor into the middle class, thus improving our overall quality of life. Obviously, this tax, or something similar, is needed in order to fix our society and

Plastic bag waste has become a huge issue in our state and must be put to an end. I believe that enforcing a bag tax is the best way to do this. Along almost every street or highway, you will find plastic bags strewn about carelessly. This is very unsettling and unattractive for the people coming in and out of our state. If we were to place a bag tax, people would be more likely to save their bags, or use less, limiting

Around the world, plastic bags are used by everyone everywhere. Some places you even will have to pay 5 to 15 cents for them, some places where you have to pay is Boulder, Colorado, Brownsville, Texas, and even in Washington D.C. We can all avoid this problem simply by just switching to reusable bags. Most stores can offer you to pay for the reusable bags and you get to keep them, and be able to use them as often as you would like, but if you would like to you could even DIY (do it yourself), but then you have to provide materials for yourself.

I strongly disagree about paying 25cents per bag just to put some groceries in a plastic bag. I understand that recycling is important and you don't want people to throw away the bags ,but no matter what it's still going to happen . Paying money for bags is just crazy the money that we are wasting for bags could go to something more important like homeless people, orphanage homes ,charitys ,animal shelters ,natural disasters etc. other then going to the government which I think it is very selfish. I think paying for bags should be banned because, paying for them are putting people out of good jobs. Californias , Washingtons, New Yorkers, etc. 50% of people have lost their jobs due to the government making us having to pay for bags and

I vaguely remember the bag tax that was short-lived in Dallas. While the ban and 5 cent tax on plastic bags was created with an environmentally friendly goal, the execution of the plan would not work, just as what happened in Dallas. Plastic bags are a portion of pollutants that are present. The tax and ban would also have to apply to other types of trash that people use and throw away on a daily basis. Some consumers will just pay the tax, especially if they are using few bags or forgot that the tax was established. If someone wants to use plastic bags without paying the tax, they will go out of their way to visit neighboring areas that do not have the policy. Stores that are obligated to abide by the policy will lose customers and, in turn,

Low income families will have trouble paying a fee, even if it is less than a dollar. Or, if a ban occurs, they may have issues trying to get money to buy a reusable bag. As stated by Lee Calif of the American Progressive Bag Alliance (APBA), “Hundreds of millions of dollars will be taken out of the pockets of low income people.” Also, if a ban occurs, retailers will have to pay for bag alternatives which may cost up to three times as much. The city of Evanston has provided the fact that a “plastic bag ban will cost retailers money as more people decide to use paper bags which cost three times more than plastic”. Based on the evidence presented, you can tell that plastic bag fees and bans will have a negative impact on people’s finances. People pro-fee believe that a fee will teach people to not buy bags because they cannot afford it. That argument is obviously flawed, if they cannot afford five cents, how will they pay for alternatives? People will not be able to pay for alternatives if there is a ban/fee, it could cause already struggling people more

Many individuals underestimate the amount of plastic we use each day. According to the article “Plastic Bags Wars”, “the world consumes 1 million plastic shopping bags every minute”. Plastic bags, along with many other types of plastics, have become a leading source of pollution worldwide (Doucette). Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita foundation states that we use two million plastic bottles in the United States every five minutes. Discovered by Charles Moore in 1997, the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is a prime example of the amount of plastic pollution that enters the

As the negative externalities appear, tax can apply. As the graph shown, people maximize their welfare where PMB = PMC. By applying the tax of P0 -P2, the supply curve shifts to SMC and price rises from P1 to P2, People will now consume less, as the quantity decreases from Q* to Q**, the negative surplus (shaded area) will decrease, thus, the social well-being increases.

I decided to write this report after watching a documentary called, “Plastic Bags Environmental Impacts" on YouTube. The video showed poor innocent animals wrapped up in plastic bags and it made me feel heartbroken. So I wanted to find out what other issues do plastic bags create and if we really need to ban them, or if we need to find other alternatives, or just manage our use of them. Plastic bags have a benefit ‘convenience’, as most people nowadays use plastic bags for all sort of things e.g. moving things, reusing for shopping, art and crafts which show people are reusing them seen they are so convenient. My hypothesis is: Plastic bags are causing a problem and together we need to find a solution. My key questions are: What are the issues that plastic bags create? Are their environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic bags? How can we manage the use of plastic bags?

Introduction: Have you ever wanted to help the environment, but you just didn’t know how? When we go shopping we see a lot of people carrying bags made of plastic. I must admit; plastic bags can be very convenient at times, but the use of plastic bags has it disadvantages. If you knew about the dangers of the use of plastic bags, then I'm sure you will think twice about using plastic bags and use tote bags instead.

Five hundred billion used globally and one hundred billion of them end up in U.S. landfills, taking about one thousand years to decompose, but only 5.2 percent were recycled (Borrud, 2007, p.75).-These are the figures plastic bags have produced every year. Human beings invented plastic bags for the convenience of carriers and packers. However, just as other great inventions, say, nuclear energy and biotechnology, plastic bags are causing serious issues like global warming, environment pollution and energy consumption. They are gradually becoming sword towards ourselves. In responding to this problem, the city of San Francisco has become the trail blazer to prohibit non-biodegradable plastic bags in its large supermarkets and pharmacies.

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