paper or...paper?

This is awesome. I can only hope it moves eastward very soon.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/27/environment.baggs.reut/index.html

When we were in Amsterdam for a week over X-Mas 2005, our studio apartment came with a supply of heavy plastic bags. The landlord warned us that we would need them if we went shopping.

Sure enough, when I went shopping for supplies soon after getting settled, I noticed the clerks weren't even offering bags, let alone paper or plastic. If you needed a bag, you had to ask, and you were charged for it.

Thanks to my recent trip to South by Southwest in Austin, I have doubled my stash of canvas shopping bags. And they knock a few nickels off my shopping bill every time I use them. Sweet!

G