"When the government congratulates themselves on the single-use plastic bag charge, what they fail to mention is the enormous increase in the purchasing of so-called 'bags for life'," says Megan Corton Scott, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK.
She says Greenpeace research shows that households used almost 57 bags for life in 2019. That adds up to more than 1.5 billion bags for life issued by supermarkets, she says. "Because these bags for life are thicker and more durable, they have a far greater environmental impact both in production and how they break down, and the shift to bags for life saw supermarkets increase the amount of plastic they use," she adds.concluded that plastic bags for life needed to be used at least four times to ensure they contributed less to climate change than the lighter, single-use bags.
Campaigners have called for retailers to increase the prices of bags for life as more shoppers now treat them as disposable. The Green Alliance saysThe Co-op supermarket ditched thin polythene bags in favour of compostable carrier bags in April 2021 and called for a
They need to be more expensive or stopped altogether. I’ve been reusing mine for years and now view those who don’t as lazy. Landfill is the adult equivalent of kids not tidying their rooms properly and just shoving things under the bed but much worse for the environment
Some shops have stopped selling single use plastic bags so how many customers are throwing away reusable plastic bags?
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