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Originally Posted by JoshBB

I disagree with plastic bag charges.. they disproportionately affect the very poor and very desperate. Not only that but literally adding 5p is not exactly going to solve climate change. Conservatives pandering to businesses as always. We need to focus on clean energy production and fighting deforestation, not adding charges to our plastic bags ffs. How weak.

Because charging a few pence for a bag is really going to fuel poverty

As for not helping the planet, in Wales plastic bag use has decreased by 70% since charges came in: that's a big difference. Plastic bags are pretty self-evidently a disaster for the environment and for wildlife, it's something like 90% of seabirds that have pieces of plastic in their stomachs