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Originally Posted by Dion
It's a money grab by Wallyworld as they know full well that charging 5 cents a bag is not going to do very much in the way of getting customers to go green.
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Man, I don't know why people make such strong proclamations without knowing anything other than their own preconceived notions on whether an idea works (also see: carbon tax).
Here's a
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Thus, the paper concludes that the bag charge might have worked "both by the activation of pre-existent pro-environmental attitudes and by a direct effect of the charge on behavior." In addition, it suggests that the new policy worked in another way as well -- by being disruptive of the status quo and changing people's default options and choices. "After the introduction of the plastic bag charge, customers had to explicitly approve or request to obtain a bag and pay for it," notes the study. They couldn't just get one without thinking about it.
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