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That's not going to get rid of trash, its just going to remove more money from people's wallets as the tax gets passed to them. Might even open up a black market like we see with nyc cigarette taxes. Maybe if the tax went to local street cleanup initiatives or something it might do a sliver of good, but that's just one sort of litter out of the rest.

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It would do a lot to reduce the amount of single use plastic packaging.

Sure, the plastic Coke bottle costs 1-2 cents less than the glass one, but the ecological problems it creates are at least an order of magnitude higher than that.

If Coke can either increase their prices by $0.01 or $0.10, and the $0.01 option is preferred by consumers, their choice will be clear.

It always depends to what scale you chose to measure the harm. Environmental plastic pollution? Sure plastic is way worse. Less broken glass on the sidewalk? Now that plastic is saving your kid and your dog a hospital trip. We are also assuming making the glass bottle is more environmentally friendly than making the plastic one.

Throwing plastic bottles on the sidewalk is plain littering. Throwing glass bottles is not just littering. Someone throwing glass bottles around definitely knows what he's doing and should be dealt with accordingly

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