Plastic bags
I FULLY agree with The Northern Echo’s comment and Nigel Burton’s excellent Excess Baggage feature (Echo, Oct 6) about plastic bags: “If you really need a plastic bag, everyone can afford 5p.”
I am pleased that this policy will raise more than £700m for good causes and save £60m in clean-up costs.
However, a lot of people I know, and myself too, are going to turn these bags inside out if the shop’s logo or name is on them.
Why should we have to pay to be a mobile advert?
Geoff Gregg, Tursdale.
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