Posts Tagged ‘reusable bag’
DC Bag Tax Nets $150,000 For Anacostia River Clean Up
‘Reusable Giant Bags’
courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
The District’s 5-cent bag tax, which started in January 2010, netted approximately $150,000 during its first month of enactment. According to the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue, only 3 million bags were issued in the month of January compared to 2009’s 22.5 million bags per month [...]
Area Stores Help You Avoid the Bag Tax
‘If Poop Grew On Trees’
courtesy of ‘maxedaperture’
The bag tax is going into effect on Friday, and you’ll be paying 5 cents for every disposable bag you use. But to take the sting out of the tax while still getting shoppers to use reusable bags (which is the point of all this anyway), several stores are [...]
