Interesting…
DC bag tax rakes in money, cuts bag use
The District of Columbia’s controversial nickel single-use plastic bag fee brought in almost $150,000 in its first month and cut bag use by an estimated 86 percent.
According to numbers released by the District’s Office of Tax and Revenue, the monies collected from the first month of the five-cent per-bag fee totaled $149,432.27.
Bag usage dipped from a monthly average of 22.5 million bags per month to just short of three million, according to a press release from the office of D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells.
Cited from Plastics Recycling Update
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