Perhaps the most strict printed paper wine boxes regulations

San Francisco's city council passed an ordinance banning the use of plastic bags in March-2007. The city, which has a population of approximately 752,000, estimates that it generates 1,400 tons of plastic bag waste each year.

The Boston city council wants to ban the use of paper bags and boxes in supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores in the city. Senator Brian A. Joyce is drawing up plans to file a bill proposing a statewide law that would charge store customers a fee if they elect plastic over other kinds of bags. If the bill passed, they would start at 2 cents per bag in 2008 and gradually increase to 15 cents per bag in the seventh year. The revenue would go toward the state's recycling programs and toward improving consumer awareness of environmental problems caused by plastic bags.

Ireland has decreased plastic bag consumption by placing a consumer tax on plastic bags. Perhaps the most strict printed paper wine boxes regulations are found in the Indian providence of Himachal Pradesh, where people caught with plastic bags are fined $2,000.