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40 U. Mem. L. Rev. 645 (2009-2010)
Sacking the Culture of Convenience: Regulating Plastic Shopping Bags to Prevent Further Environmental Harm

handle is hein.journals/umem40 and id is 651 raw text is: Sacking the Culture of Convenience: Regulating Plastic Shopping Bags to Prevent Further Environmental Harm BRIDGET M. WARNER* Using cloth bags has been seen as an extreme act of a crazed environmentalist. We want it to be seen as something a smart, progressive person would carry. ' - Vincent Cobb, Founder of Reusablebags.com INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 646 I. HISTORY OF THE PLASTIC CARRYOUT BAG ............................ 647 II. HARMFUL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE PLASTIC CARRYOUT BAG ....................................................... 648 III. REGULATING THE PLASTIC CARRYOUT BAG .......................... 652 A. Recycling the Plastic Bag ................................................ 653 B. Banning the Plastic Carryout Bag .................................. 657 C. Imposing a Fee or Tax on the Plastic Bag ...................... 662 D. Public Education Campaigns and Promoting R eusable Bags ................................................................. 668 E. Voluntary Eff orts ............................................................. 670 IV. OPPOSITION TO REGULATION ................................................. 672 A. The Plastics Industry ....................................................... 672 B . R etailers ........................................................................... 676 C . C onsum ers ....................................................................... 677 V. PLASTIC BAG REGULATION THAT WILL * The author regularly uses sustainable, reusable bags while shopping. Bridget Warner is a 2010 Juris Doctorate candidate at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at The University of Memphis. While writing this Note, a tree outside the author's downtown apartment contained seven plastic bags that were stuck within its branches. 1. Elisabeth Rosenthal, Motivated By a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags, N.Y. TIMES, Feb. 2, 2008, at A3, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/ 02/world/europe/02bags.html?page wanted=l&_r=l. 645

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