There is No Free Bag
You may think a free bag is free, but you are paying $98.80 each year in hidden costs for so-called “free bags.”
Here’s how you pay without knowing it:
Retailers pay about two cents a piece for the bags they give away, but they charge higher prices for other products to make up for it. Cities pay 17 cents per bag to clean them up off roadsides and to land fill them. Municipalities charge higher taxes to cover these costs.
That’s $0.19 per bag, that you are paying whether you know it or not. At an average rate of 10 bags a week, that’s 520 bags a year. Nineteen cents times 520 bags comes out to $98.80 a year that we are all paying for so-called “free” bags!
Next time someone offers you a free bag, think about it. Paying just 99 cents for a reusable bag that you can use for years makes cents!