After the Environment Agency’s research on supermarket carrier bags was released, it has led packaging sector leaders to call on the Welsh Environment Minister to scrap the carrier bag tax due to be introduced in October this year.
The research has found a cotton shopping bag has to be re-used at least 131 times to have less environmental impact than a standard single-use plastic bag.
"If it goes ahead, Wales will suffer higher environmental damage not less. These are the unintended consequences which her counterparts in Westminster and Scotland acknowledged a long time ago.”
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