Rather then asking people and shopkeers not to make use of the Plastic bags (or to charge more to discourage it from using it), wouldnt it be more effective if the government bans the manufacturing of such plastic things? at the manufacturing level?For they have to have trust in people as they will intially struggle but will change for good over a period of time..
Currently in South Australia our plastic bags have change consistency. The bags now disintegrate at a much faster rate. Or we now can use material bags (green bags) which are washable and can be reused many times before needing to recycle them and buy new. I have been using reusable bags (20 years or so) even before they were brought in for the general public to use. The shops charge 10c for every plastic bag you buy to take your groceries home. Has that had an impact on their use - I don't know. It took quite a while for people to change their ways. There are now more people using the green bags' than plastic. But still the plastic is around. I don't know what was wrong with the original paper bags that we had when I was a child. They were reusable and bio-degradable. What will happen in the future? Only time will tell.
