Texans May Start Paying for Plastic
By: Kristen Kennedy
Updated: March 3, 2009
One state legislator wants Texas shoppers to go green or pay up. The proposed bill would require customers to pay seven cents for every plastic bag they pick up at stores. The bill is meant to encourage customers to go green and buy reusable canvas bags to take to grocery stores and other retail shops. United Supermarkets already offer a nickel discount for every United canvas bag you bring in to bag groceries. "It's gonna reduce the amount of paper or plastic that we use which we have to buy, and obviously those costs have to be passed along in one way or the other. But then the other thing is the less of those things that we use, then the less that is going back into the environment," says Eddie Owens with United Supermarkets.
If you do choose to use plastic, you can recycle the bags by dropping them off at the blue boxes that are at the front of all United stores.
