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benj111 on Aug 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year

Your link 1 makes reference to Ireland introducing a tax of 37 cents. As far as I'm aware it was 15 Euro cents, and it doesn't seem to match up with either USD or Indian Rupee amounts, so what currency would you expect that to be, or is it just wrong?

knolan on Aug 1, 2019 [–]

The Irish bag tax has been increased from €0.15 to €0.44 over the years.

benj111 on Aug 1, 2019 | | [–]

"Ireland: The country introduced a plastic bag tax of 37 cents on purchase in 2001"

So its talking about when it was introduced.

btb on Aug 1, 2019 | | [–]

Similar to the current charge in Denmark which is around 3.75 DKK(€0.5) per large plastic bag

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