Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

Yes, Please Tax Our Bags

Three cheers for Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to charge six cents for every plastic shopping bag given out in the city. Even (especially?) if it drives down plastic bag use rather than raising a lot of money for the city, it will still be a big victory in my opinion.

I’ve always been appalled by NYC’s avid love of disposables. I would eat more salads at lunchtime if they didn’t come in those horrible plastic clamshells whose wastefulness prevents me from even enjoying the food that comes inside them.

I remember moving here and working at that cupcake shop, and people would get their one small coffee to go in a paper bag! They thought it was normal!