Just plain common sense

Plastic bags cause harm to the environment. Governments have to spend lots of money containing this harm. Who should pay for this? The community as a whole? Definitely not, says Bruno Oberle, head of Switzerland’s Federal Environment Office, “Polluters must pay; they cannot be allowed to off load the costs on to others. Otherwise you get a distortion of prices, and of the rules governing a market economy. Correctives must therefore be introduced”. This was published at www.swissinfo.org in an article called Being Green is Good for Business Ireland had the right idea. They introduced a tax on plastic bags and consumption feel 90% in just one year. Just plain common sense. You do wrong, you’re made to pay, you quickly correct your behaviour.