Toronto's 5 cent bag 'Fee, tax,' are you running out of bags?

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Toronto, CANADA - Toronto recently started charging five cents for plastic carry bags and we are all running out of garbage bags for our trash. I think I may have a solution to this dilemma. (below)

It's the opposite of what it use to be, we had plastic bags coming out of ears, but now with the five cent "TAX" to preserve the environment, (because plastic bags do not decompose in landfills") we now bring our own carry bags. What happened to the old system of "plastic or paper" years ago when they introduced plastic bags. We were given a choice. But now that they have banned plastic carry bags we are forced to bring our own, and yet the stores never started using paper bags, why not?

And where does this five cent "TAX" go, in the pocket of the vendor? Some large chains are being responsible and donate these fees to charitable groups like (World Wildlife Fund - WWF) but there is no requirement under the current law. So what happens, is many of the corner stores are just adding this "FEE, TAX" to their bottom line. ($500 to $1000 per month?)

Our solution, is to have two garbage containers in your kitchen. (see photos) One for wet waste and a small plastic garbage container for dry items, boxes, wrappers or anything that is not wet. This actually works, and we have noticed that our "wet" garbage has decreased considerably, and we just carry the dry garbage out to the re-cycle bin.

The Toronto Star did an expose on "where the five cents is going" back in January 2010 which you might find interesting, as well and still to this day there is no real plan where the money is going, mostly into the pockets of retailers. The NEW bag fee (bylaw) went into effect back in June 2009 and we're coming up to three years of this TAX/Fee grab and still no real answers. The new Mayor of  Toronto Rob Ford has said on many occasions that he wants to ban this practice but so far has done nothing. It is a noble cause, but talk about nickle and dimeing the public, this is one of the best.

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Daniel .. Toronto, CANADA

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