Public responsibility

To the Editor:

I wish and hope that people would be responsible but I have not found that to generally be the case. I am promoting the banning of plastic bags or at least charging people a $.25 tax for each because I know people sometimes need to be incentivized/ encouraged to be responsible. My family comes from PA/ Cleveland. Both my grandfathers, coal miners, were dead before they were 50 thanks to clean coal. Living in Cleveland I got to watch our local river catch on fire, thanks to the personal responsibility of three major steel company’s emptying their waste...