Mayor Marjoram in Stroud is still pushing to make Stroud the second plastic bag free town - here is a national petition calling for a tax on plastic bags like in Ireland.People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or strewn across the British countryside.
In Ireland, a tax of 15cents per bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros which was spent on environmental projects. Bangladesh has banned polythene bags altogether while Taiwan and Singapore are taking steps to discourage their use. See my letter to press on this earlier in the year here.
Please take a moment to sign the petition to introduce a similar tax (to be spent on environmental projects) of 10p per bag in Britain. Go to: http://www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition
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I would prefer and hope that this Tax does not raise any revenue at all. No plastic bags - no revenue - savings on cleansing - more dosh for environmental projects.
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