Bag levy triggers fall in NI plastic bag use
Northern Ireland’s Department of the Environment (DoE) has announced that its plastic bag levy has led to a ‘significant reduction’ in the number of single-use carrier bags dispensed in the country.
This article was taken from Issue 69DoE estimates that around 300 million carrier bags were issued in Northern Ireland last year. However, new provisional figures released by DoE for the first quarter of 2013-14 suggest that between the introduction of the levy (8 April 2013) and 30 June, 17.5 million single-use carrier bags were given out by retailers. For some supermarkets, DoE states that this could represent an annual reduction of over 80 per cent.
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