Supermaket chain in England to charge for plastic bags
A supermarket chain of stores in South West England, M&S, plans to add a ‘bag tax’ on plastic bags. The aim is to do it in the whole country of England. The program has been tested in Northern Ireland and it showed a 66 percent reduction in the use of plastic bags.
It would be great if a store would do this in the United States. Surprised Whole Foods has not done such a thing like this yet. It seems the consumer will use less plastic bags only when their is a financial incentive. There is a huge plastic bag lobby in the United States that wants use to be addicted to these environmentally unfriendly trash.
The supermarket chain M&S plans to give out free re-usable bags to consumers for 3 weeks prior to the plastic bag tax.
You can do your part and get some reusable bags. Its the right thing to do even if you are the only one!
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Via UK Hippyshopper
September 19th, 2008 at 10:09 am |
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