Rubbish tax

Is this the season of silly tax proposals or something?

On Monday it was a Power tax and today it is a rubbish tax and it is only Wednesday.

That's right our incumbent government wants to put a tax on rubbish, at about 10c a bag.

That doesn't sound too bad does it except that the bulk of my household's rubbish is discarded packaging. Things that can't be recycled at all or can't be recycled despite the little triangle on the bottom with a number in.

Polystyrene is one of the most over used and hard to dispose of. The amount of polystyrene many household appliances are packed with is bulkier than the appliance itself.
Where is the logic in that and why should we effectively pay twice for it?

As for plastic supermarket bags, what a menace. Their reusable life is very limited, they make lousy cat toys and I have never seen any other type of bag get stuck 20m up an Oak tree for months. Ye old brown paper bag is much superior and had many uses after developing a hole in the bottom. Wrapping items sold on Trademe is one use, hours of amusement for gorgeous white cats is another. You can even compost the remains or put them out with the paper recycling.

Now that I have had my rant perhaps a rubbish tax isn't such a load of rubbish. So long as the amount of rubbish foisted on to households to start with is reduced at the source first.