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By Colin Fernandez

Environment Correspondent

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CARRIER bag sales

at supermarkets have

plunged 93 per cent

thanks to the 5p levy.

A typical shopper now gets

through just ten a year, half

the 19 last year and down

from a shocking 140 in 2014.

The heartbreaking sight of

throwaway plastic choking

sealife shocked the nation and

led to this paper’s Banish the

Bags campaign a decade ago.

Just five years ago 7.6billion

bags were being handed out

annually by the big supermar-

kets. But that has now fallen to

only 549million – meaning many

fewer end up in rivers and seas or

blowing around the countryside.

Charities are also reaping the

benefits – with £169million from

bag charges going to good causes.

Today, writing exclusively for the

Daily Mail, the new Environment

Secretary says she will do all she

can to ensure Britain ends its

PLASTIC

BAG USE

HALVES

IN JUST

A YEAR

Astonishing triumph for Mail campaign

CAMBRIDGE

STUDENT FALLS

TO HER DEATH

FROM PLANE

SEE PAGE NINE

Tragedy: Alana

Cutland, 19, was

carrying out

research in

Madagascar