A massive drop of 93 percent record after bringing in 5p charge by plastic bag use HALVES in just one year in boost for the war on pollution and supermarkets

Carrier bag sales at supermarkets have plunged ninety-three percent because of the 5p levy. A typical shopper currently gets through simply 10 a year, down from 19 last year and a surprising hundred and forty in 2014. The heartrending sight of throwaway plastic choking sea life dismayed the state and junction rectifier to the current paper's Banish the baggage campaign a decade past. Just 5 years past 7.6 billion baggage were being handed ....