AurumPunzel
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2018
It is large when you consider that the only other stores charging so much for a bag tends to be big box wholesalers and IKEA, both of which offer easier means of carrying your shopping out bagless, and when most other stores in those municipalities with bag ordinances charge the bare minimum required for a bag, e.g. 10¢ in San Francisco for paper or 2.25mil/57µm ban-compliant thick plastic.I don't consider 99 cents a large fee. The world needs to change and we as humans need to adapt. Disney made a choice and consumers can vote with their wallet, I bet that sales will not decrease.
Also, most of the plastic pollution isn't coming out of Western countries, but from developing/economically-emerging Asian and African countries who have very poor waste management regimes and huge population growth, such as China and Indonesia. Even efforts in Western countries aren't going to make a huge dent in the 90% of the ocean's plastic waste problem, so I think efforts should be more focused on the real sources of the waste problem and for the waste management sector and municipalities to stop exporting their waste and process it all domestically, which can easily generate domestic jobs and spark a massive recycling revolution, which is what I want to see. A so-called 'Goldilocks solution' where we can achieve the goal of saving the environment while maintaining convenience is far better than going from one extreme to another, because there's always going to be unintended environmental consequences associated with phaseouts and bans.