"We've spent plenty of time debating the merits of D.C.'s three-year-old five-cent bag tax," , "but by all accounts it seems to be working: bag use is down, and environmental activists recently reported that they had seen a substantial decrease in the amount of bags found in one of the tributaries of the Anacostia River."
So how did this revolution in public policy come to be? Check out the definitive history:
