in one of its supermarkets. And Holland & Barrett has banned selling wet wipes from all of its 800 stores around the UK and Ireland., these steps are more urgent than ever. And new figures released today show that these kinds of steps mean we’re headed in the right directionhas found that there was a 47% decrease of plastic bag sales among the seven main retailers in England between 2018 and 2019.
The average person in England now buys 10 bags a year, compared with 140 bags in 2014 before the 5p charge was introduced. Julian Kirby of Friends of the Earth added: “What an amazing difference good legislation makes. Five pence really is a small price to pay to see this massive reduction in plastic bags that used to blight the countryside and clog up waterways, with horrific resultant damage to marine life.”David Attenborough responds to University student’s dissertation in the sweetest way