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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