Know why Russians bring their own shopping bags?

Published on October 22, 2005 By Rajiv Badlani In Business

Because stores in Russia don't give away free plastic shopping bags, that's why. That's why the Irish government imposed a tax on plastic shopping bags and reduced usage 90%.

The folks who run our convoluted world can’t accept that there are simple solutions to seemingly complex problems. With one fell swoop we can stop our earth from being choked at the rate of one million plastic bags being thrown away every minute! What do we have to do? Do we need a heavy think tank to figure this one out? No. Just tax plastic bags, and viola! – we’ll have a nicer world!

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