French picnic tax might be worth considering

Perspective for your consideration …What does it look like when it’s fixed…?
France to create 'picnic tax' on pollution …excerpt…PARIS (AFP) — France's environment minister Monday announced plans for a "picnic tax" on throw-away plates, cups and cutlery, as part of a broad drive to slash pollution and energy use…."We are doing it," Jean-Louis Borloo told RTL radio, saying the levy would apply to items made of non-recyclable plastic or paper, and would represent about 90 eurocents per kilogram…."Rather than a tax, we prefer to call it a contribution on high waste-producing products," his ministry said, adding that the proceeds would be used to subsidies recyclable goods…The measure is the latest in a series of initiatives by France to lower its bill for imported energy and its emissions of greenhouse gases.
Yea, I know, because it’s not an American idea and especially because the French came up with it, it’s not valid. IT is fixed when we – Americans – get over our hubris. Sorry, the world does not revolve around us. And all great ideas do not initiate only in America. I believe some many centuries past that notion was put to rest as a wise mind determined this planet we all occupy revolves around the Sun. Or is that still in dispute for some Americans…?
Hey, it’s thinking a bit outside the box, something in America we have been educated not to do as for so long now have we drunk the corporate “kool-aid” to the point where we can only react like one of Pavlov’s dog’s in his experiments.