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The issues with reusable straws
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The cardboard boxes become common for home deliveries here. Banning plastic bags was a battle that went nowhere without a good alternative.
People need to be educated for things to work. Expose everyone to the solutions until it becomes ingrained.
What do you mean? By me in Denver, the 10¢ plastic bag fee had hiccups for a week until people remembered to bring their own. Some people still pay for plastic, some stores sell reusable bags by the checkouts for $1, and a lot of people bring their own.
I definitely miss Aldi's boxes, though.
Not in Brazil. Charging backfired really quickly and the solution was biodegradable plastic, which might mean just plastic that breaks down in plastic we can't see.