Single Use Plastic Bags Banned in Hawaii

http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/how-hawaii-plastic-bag-ban-came-about.html?campaign=sailthru

Here in Houston, they are 'studying' a ban on plastic bags, giving all the plastic manufacturers time to fight it.  I believe that imposing a charge on the bags would be a much better way to go in this town.  I'm sure there's be an uproar about jobs, rights, the Constitution and socialism if they were to outright ban them.