Mayor Boris Johnson launched a plea for us to use less plastic bags. Figures show that the number of plastic bags used by supermarkets has fallen by a whacking 3.5 billion in one year.
Thin plastic bags are a major environmental problem. Most of them have a life span of just 20 minutes before they are thrown out. They finally end up on landfill sites, where they take a horrendous 1,000 years to biodegrade. Our precious, beautiful wild life is horribly threatened by these bags, because the bags choke in the throats of birds and if the bags are chucked into the sea, fishes and sea creatures suffer and die.
Customers are getting the message at last and bringing in reusable bags. The plastic tide is turning the right way, but we mustn’t give up, we must keep saying No, and No and No again, whenever we are offered a thin plastic bag. They are poison, they are destructive, and they are a blight on the face of this beautiful planet.