Toronto shoppers may have to start paying five cents for every plastic shopping bag that they get from stores. This is under a new proposal worked out between the the city and big grocery companies. Industry officials from he Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors which represent the major grocery chains, have called a conference today to announce what they are billing as an alternative proposal the stop the use of plastic bags. The hopes of this is to cut plastic bag use by 70% by 2012. Retailers had complained that under the city's proposal it would be hard to know how many throwaway bags have been saved if customers brought their own bags. Also they complained that the previous ten cent refund on plastic bags would drive up their costs and increase grocery prices. :Negotiations over the past 10 days produced a revised plan: Instead of refunding money for bags saved, shoppers will have to pay a nickel every time they walk away with a non reusable bag. Some discount stores like No Frills already charge for grocery bags."
I think that charging people for bags can be used positively in grocery stores in Toronto. Charging people for bags will in turn cause people to want to bring their own bags, most likely being reusable. This can benefit Toronto by reducing the amount of plastic bags used therefore bettering our environment.
3 comments:
I agree with you Stefan. Plastic bags are very bad for the environment because it takes the longest time ,between all the house materials, to get disaggregated back into the soil. By charging everyone 5cents for a plastic bag, hopefully people will bring their own bag from their home to store groceries they bought in the store.
I agree with Tommy that plastic bags are very bad for the environment. It damages wildlife and pollute our world. As said before. it takes the longest to disaggregate and it doesn't even dissolve in the ground. This means when its left behiend animals start to eat it and die. By making people pay for bags it makes them bring their own bag which will hopefully help the environment and the world.
I agree with Ben. The platic bags are abusolutly terrible for the enviroment. It doesn't break down into the earths core, and therefore sits in landfills forever. This is a good idea charging 5 cents per plastic bag used in stores. I hope this law becomes a reality and we can see our enviroment improving.
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