I am happy that from 5th October supermarkets have started to charge 5p for each plastic bag they provide to customers. In 2o10 supermarkets issued 6.3 billion bags and in 2014 this sored to 7.6 billion, but so many small shops are still not included. PSB are catalysing environmental, pollution, damaging countryside, coastlines, destroying wildlife both on land and in seas, blocking gutters as well as costing millions in cleaning up! They create havoc if not tackled soon when telephone and digital orders for goods are also leaping. Govt. target is to reduce them to 80% for supermarkets and 50% for others in a few years.
Nonetheless supermarkets still supply PSB with a charge of 5p or 10p each when some people don't mind to pay. Instead, they must start selling strong paper shopping bags, people won't mind a couple of pence extra. This should happen even in small shops and other shopping. England should import cheap paper bags. Alternatively it can start a big plant to make packing papers, bags, etc. out of leaves, twigs, wood and recycling rubbish papers to tackle this big problem and save money too!
Upendra Kapadia
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