Alexander Chancellor

Oh, how I will miss the plastic bag!

Its demise may be a rare and heartening sign of our lack of selfishness but life will never be so easy again

issue 10 October 2015

It has taken years, but finally England has joined the rest of the United Kingdom and other countries around the world in declaring war on the plastic carrier bag. This week for the first time English supermarkets are being forbidden by law to give plastic bags away for free. From now on they will have to charge 5p for every one of them.

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