London may ban plastic bags
British consumers use an estimated 10 billion bags in a year, that’s about 167 per person! Yet it is also estimated that Supermarket giant Tesco hand out a massive 4 billion bags per year!
The council leaders have two ideas, one is the outright ban of stores handing out free plastic bags or the alternative is to create a bag tax, which would be set 10p (20 cents) per bag, the cost will be met by the consumers, this tax has been successfully introduced in Ireland which is set at 30 euro cents (40 cents0 per bag and it is believed that there has been a reduction of around 90% since 2002.
Clearly the plastic bag issue is not just going to go away and one way or another the government and local authorities will need to act in order to stop the plastic bag situation.
Source [The Guardian]
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