Ministers urged to learn from success of single-use bag fee, amid criticism that other measures have been delayed

Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.

Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in 2014 to 133m last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Monday.

  • treefingers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Imagine if the public transport system wasn’t rubbish and your girlfriend could travel in the same 30 minutes?

    Public transport isn’t the problem, it’s the solution

    • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Okay. I’ll tell my city to just tear down half of it so they can build a better system.

      Like I said, not all towns and cities were designed for it. It’s not something you can just plop in centuries down the road. The world doesn’t work that way.

      Any new development should have public transit in mind. Old development can’t really be retrofitted. It’s like you missed my entire comment.

      • Vii@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        In many places the cities were retrofitted for car centric infrastructure already, why couldnt it happen again?