[lbo-talk] global circuits of garbage redux

[Jason]

That stupid tax is one of the many small things in Ireland that 
regularly irritates me. At best it's paying lip serivce to green 
ideas. At worst it's yet another tax that more havilty impacts on the 
pooerst - those wihout cars. The bin tax is much worse, of course, but 
it's the same principle. Look out for forthcoming water charges. I'm 
starting to hear more about how it's necessary from Fine Gael and 
Progressive Democrats (bot right wing parties) supporters, business 
people and Green party members all the time. Some substitute for 
politics...

Jason.

On 2007-03-31 22:20:30 +0100 Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:


> First, it's 15 cents, not 15p.  You'd think even the Grauniad could
> get that one right.
> 
> The plastic bag levy ("plastax" never caught on here) did lead
> initially to a massive reduction in consumption of the bags, at least
> as measured by how many of them were recorded as having been
> distributed by retailers - many of whom have simply ignored the
> regulations - and by the amount of tax revenue raised from their sale.
> The numbers are starting to creep up again, which is usually taken as
> evidence of consumers' increasing willingness to pay the levy,
> although it could simply be a consequence of the rapidly increasing
> population here.  In any case, the levy is going up later this year to
> 22 cents per bag, to try to bring the numbers down again.
> 
> As far as I'm aware there has been no parallel levy on manufacturers
> for the unnecessary use of plastic in packaging.
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