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Friday, 10 September 2010


SHOPPERS at Britain’s biggest supermarkets are using nearly half the number of plastic carrier bags as they were four years ago.

Plastic bag use cut

SHOPPERS at Britain’s biggest supermarkets are using nearly half the number of plastic carrier bags as they were four years ago.

New figures from Wrap (Waste & Resources Action Programme) show that the number of carrier bags being used by supermarket shoppers has fallen from 10.6 billion in 2006 (when figures were first recorded) to 6.1 billion in 2009/10.

They also show that the amount of material used to produce the bags has been slashed by more than half over the same time.

A spokesman for Marks and Spencer, one of seven shops that in 2008 pledged to reduce the number of bags given to customers, said: “Last year we used 89 million single-use carrier bags in our food business – over 80% less than in 2006/07.”

 





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  • Mirri04 (Age 12) wrote on Friday, 10 September 2010 @ 09:30

    This is excellant news!

  • chocdragon (Age 12) wrote on Sunday, 12 September 2010 @ 09:06

    Definitely