In January, Israel passed a law requiring major grocery chains law to charge 10 agorot per plastic bag. I was Not Happy when this law was announced. We actually use plastic bags, y'know! Carrying stuff around, lining small garbage cans, and relevant once again just as the law took effect: bagging dirty diapers. C'mon, gumment. C'mon.
Well, over half a year later, I have to admit I was wrong on this one. We continue to use plastic bags, and we continue to get those plastic bags for free. Bags from the hardware store, from the convenience store, from the overstock store. Produce bags, it turns out, are the perfect size for our garbage cans. I used to throw out all of these bags as soon as they came in the house, because otherwise we'd collect more bags than we used up. I just never realized how many of these non-grocery-store bags we were throwing out.
Even in this post-reusable-grocery-bag world, I think the plastic bags are still coming in slightly faster than they are getting used up, Diapered Addition and all. So... "Sorry for complaining, Government? Good call?" Weird.
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