My home in Montgomery County, Maryland has taxed plastic bags at 5¢ each. It's the most effective tax I've ever seen. People carry their own tote bags, or forgo bags at all and carry groceries in their arms. I don't notice loose bags in the wind much anymore. In fact, for all the people complaining about trash on the streets, if you're younger than 45 you might not remember how bad it used to be. They had to invent cartoon characters and fake Native Americans to shame people into not throwing their refuse anywhere they happened to be standing. We made great strides while I was growing up. Public trashcans used to be more prevalent, but after 9/11 everybody was afraid they were holding bombs and they removed a great percentage of them. Most of the time I see trash it's piled up around a receptacle. We need to make recycling mandatory and easy, and a public utility.