Petition to charge 10p for plastic bags

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People in Britain use an average of 300 plastic bags every year. Each bag lasts

up to 400 years, spending the vast majority of that time in a landfill site or

strewn across the British countryside. People are becoming increasingly aware

that we need to reduce our use of plastic bags.In Ireland, a tax of 15cents per

bag resulted in a 90% drop in plastic bag usage, and raised 3.5 million Euros

which was spent on environmental projects. Bangladesh has banned polythene bags

altogether while Taiwan and Singapore are taking steps to discourage their

use.Please take a moment to sign the petition at

http://www.green-england.co.uk/plasticbagpetition to introduce a similar tax (to

be spent on environmental projects) of 10p per bag in Britain.