environment: April 2008

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and other members of the City Council are hoping to sack disposable bags. They have proposed a 20-cent fee for each bag - paper or plastic - that the grocery, drug or convenience store provides you.
If the full council approves it, it would take effect January 1, 2009.
The idea is to rid the city of the disposable bags that require a lot of energy to create and often end up littering the region's roads an...

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