by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
When Waste Resources Action Plan (WRAP) revealed that the amount of single-use plastic carrier bags handed out in 2011 increased by almost 800 million, environmental groups demanded that the public do more, and “break the bag habit”, but a recent survey...
by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
The controversial Carrier Bag Tax is making headlines yet again, but this time it is not the Government and Environmental Groups making their voices heard, but those representing the packaging industry instead. The Carrier Bag Consortium (CBC) and the Packaging and...
by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
Wales already have it, Northern Ireland will introduce it in 2013, Scotland is ‘consulting’ on it, and environmental groups are now urging England to consider it too, ‘It’ being, of course, the controversial carrier bag tax. Recent figures...
by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
Recent research carried out by Cardiff University and the British Retail Consortium shows that the five pence carrier bag charge, introduced in Wales nine months ago, is both “effective and widely supported” by Welsh citizens. The Welsh Government...
by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
The Scottish National Party (SNP) will begin a three-month consultation on Wednesday 27th June, to “seek to phase out free plastic bags in supermarkets”, and follow in the footsteps of Wales and Northern Ireland by adding a 5p carrier bag tax on all single...
by Chris Thomsen | Carrier Bag Tax
In a move to phase out ‘single use’ plastic carrier bags and reduce the detrimental impact they are having on the environment, the European Commission last year urged both individuals and businesses from across the European Union to give “their...