UK plastic bag use keeps on climbing
Calls for government to act mount after latest figures show plastic bag use in England rose 4.4 per cent last year
The government is facing fresh calls for it to take action to crackdown on the single use plastic bags, after the latest official figures confirmed that the use of thin-gauge bags rose 1.3 per cent last...
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