Yes, those bag charges are just one more way of squeezing money out of consumers. It’s like the California soda bottle charge, 10 cents per unit.
They make a ton of money off this, and I don’t think it goes to help anything related to the bottles.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
No, you're not.
In Maine, they put a dollar tax on a car battery, and a tax on appliances, although they do absolutely nothing to stockpile nor recycle either category.
However, I can say at least the returnable bottle tax encourages people to gather them up and turn them in for cash.