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Tax both paper and plastic bags and use the funds to support recycling efforts. Like many, my memory somehow sharpens when money is a factor and those nice OPB bags I have won't get left at home as often.

BTW, it's my recollection that it doesn't matter whether bags are made of 'biodegradable' materials--in pragmatic terms, everything is inert in a landfill and the amount of time it takes to break down a so-called biodegradable plastic bag is far beyond the amount of time it takes to join the big plastic island in the Pacific or end up inside an animal.

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