Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year

Re:Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year by ChrisRR on Thursday August 01, 2019 @03:28AM (#20581762)

Can confirm. From the UK here and most supermarkets will now only sell 10p strong plastic bags rather than flimsy single-use bags. I have maybe 10 or so in a cupboard and I'll take 4 or 5 along on a shop. Maybe I'll be a bag short and have to pay another 10p for a bag, but that's better than 5 or 6 single-use bags.

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Re:Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year by alimw on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:50AM (#20582432)

This prompts a question I'd like to know the answer to. One of these thick new bags is equivalent to how many of the skinny old single-use ones in terms of environmental impact?

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Re:Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year by buckminster on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:51AM (#20583283)

The supermarket Iceland (I think it was) said that after they stopped selling single-use bags they were now selling far fewer bags in total but the total amount of plastic sold had actually increased because the new bags are so much thicker.

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Re:Plastic bag sales in England halved in past year by buckminster on Thursday August 01, 2019 @11:14AM (#20584505)

Here's a link:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1063859/supermarkets-plast...

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