Over 13 billion bags are issued every year to UK shoppers – that’s roughly 220 bags each! But just 1 in every 200 is reused or recycled, the rest end up in landfill, littering our streets or polluting rivers and streams. What’s more it can take over 400 years for these bags to finally break down, giving out climate changing CO2 in the process.
That’s why I am leading a London-wide campaign with London Councils support, to press government to change legislation to introduce a London-wide ban, or levy, on throwaway bags. The public consultation closes soon, but you can make your views known on the London Councils website at http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/thebigquestion
The reduction in CO2 production could be the equivalent of taking 18,000 cars off the road! So if it is adopted, the initiative would have a positive environmental impact.
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