Taxation works.

Ireland, 2006. Here’s what the plastic bag tax has resulted in: 2002: €7.2m 2003: €12.75m 2004: €13.5m 2005: €14m + That much more money is available to be spent on improving Ireland’s environment and plastic bag usage is down by more than 90%. Is the government of India listening? This is the solution. Bans on bags less than so many microns don’t work. Just look around the streets. If plastic bags are banned where is all that daily junk coming from? Tax plastic bags. All plastic bags. Encourage people to switch to reusable fabric bags instead.