One unlovely facet of Irish life is how obsessed we can be with how other nations perceive us. However there's an upside to this and I guess we can all be proud of how our plastic bag levy is, as I type, the
most emailed story on the New York Times website
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I have actually been thinking about the plastic bag levy recently - usually when I am buying messages on my way home and need to purchase a plastic bag (and pay the 15c levy).
This levy has heightened my environmental awareness (more than causing me a financial inconvenience) so I usually bring a cloth-bag to the shops when I am deliberately setting out to do the "shopping". However, this does not happen when picking up messages on the way home. And I don't think I'm alone here.
What might be required is a behavioural intervention that would encourage people to always carry a cloth shopping-bag around with them - perhaps clipped onto their coat or their trousers?
It would take a hell of an intervention to make me walk around with a cloth bag clipped to my trousers.
i thought it was only culchies like me who called shopping getting the "messages". i wonder would terry dolan be able to tell us what that means?
Oh no."Messages" is used by us Jackeens possibly Scousers also.I will ask Terry.
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