Crusty conservatives don’t really care about free bags. What they hate is when ‘political correctness’ reflects a majority viewThese days, culture wars can break out on any topic. From NFL stars kneeling to female Time Lords, and even chicken rendang, instant outrage is now an endlessly renewable resource.In Australia, the furore du jour is banning plastic bags, where much of the country lags behind Botswana, Tanzania, and the state of South Australia, which abandoned them in 2009 without any detriment besides the lost sales of 400 million bags. Continue reading…
Via: Australia: the country that went to war over plastic bags | Dom Knight

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