Should supermarket carrier bags be taxed?

10p tax plan for supermarket bags - Telegraph

Extract:

"The tax has been agreed by the leaders of London's 33 boroughs and will be included in a Bill to come before MPs on Nov 27. If passed, the new law could be in force by 2009.

The London Councils Leaders' Committee also suggested a total ban on plastic bags.

"This is not about attacking supermarkets," a spokesman said. "It is about trying to get people to change perceptions.

"We use around 13 billion carrier bags each year. Each adult uses about 300 a year on average, yet only one in 200 is recycled."

Billions of bags are sent to landfill sites each year and it can take 400 years for a discarded bag to decompose."


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