Chicagoans mostly grumble about city's new bag tax

Chicago's tax on disposable bags deputed to mixed reviews Wednesday.

Shopper Marshall Taylor said he narrowly avoided paying the tax at a Jewel-Osco in Wicker Park. Taylor said he saw a news report Wednesday morning that the tax was taking effect and finally put into service reusable bags from Mariano's that he had been carrying in his trunk for months.

"I suppose it is good for the environment," Taylor said. "I have had these bags in my trunk and they're huge, and I use them for everything. But the tax is what made me bring them in the store today."

"From an ecological standpoint, this is great," Roz Moreno wrote in a comment on Facebook. "I've used my own reusable bags for years. Plastic bags end up in landfills. We have to do everything we can to save the planet."

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