Hard on the heels of the Prime Minister's outburst against plastic bags, another live example from up here in Wales. With effect from 1 October, a new regulation from the Welsh Assembly requiring supermarkets to make a minimum charge of 5p per bag. Well, that will really help fight climate change, won't it. Even if the law of unintended consequences will mean that more household litter goes everywhere because there are fewer bags reused, more instances of dog deposits being left (no, let's not go down that one).
But one irony stood out at a Tesco shopping trip a few days ago. The checkout assistant offered two cardboard bottle containers free of charge, and without obtaining any pledge that they would be reused. They're not that good for lining waste paper baskets (etc), of course. And what was their production cost compared to a couple of plastic bags? And might Tesco have been giving them away free just to put two fingers up to the Welsh Assembly?
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