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Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows
(www.theguardian.com)
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Stop using plastic bags for the sake of the future of the human race? Pass
Stop using plastic bags to save penny's? All in
And while we are at it, ban nonbiodegradable filtered cigarettes.
Smoke yo shit whole or dont at all.
Why not just put a birth year on it? No one born after 2010 can buy cigarettes. Ever.
Give it 100 years or so, and we'll be smoke-free.
New Zealand is doing exactly this. Other comment is right though, black market will come prepared
If you follow that logic to its natural conclusion, you should never make anything illegal because it doesn't work.
Which is obviously going super great for America and its Gun problem.
The goal of banning a year of birth is to attempt to have your cake and eat it too, with this very problem in mind.
Your born in 2010? You never get to smoke (bar illegally). Born in 09? Sure, go for it. Cancers got you bro.
Are you kidding? We couldn't even get these idiots to not try to kill themselves on the Covid virus. They willingly went out and got themselves on ventilators so they could eat at Applebee's.
But you see covid was a conspiracy by the government to inject nanobots into you, while also been a virus produced by 5G towers. It's all perfectly logical.
While also not being dangerous and "just like the flu"
If only companies will avoid committing illegal crimes to avoid paying fines.
I mean, sure, but in a post about users paying for plastic bags, i don't see the relevance.