A cross-party committee of
MPs says the government's plans for a 5p charge on plastic carrier bags in
England are a "complete mess".
The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) says the
current proposals are "unnecessarily complicated".
Their report says that bans in Ireland and Wales
were simpler and have significantly reduced the impact of plastic bags on the
environment.
It seems the most simple
of things and it seems it would take the minimum of organising to introduce and
yet the government have somehow messed up the plans for introducing a charge on plastic bags.
If they can’t get this simple thing right how can we trust them to do anything
else?
Instead of just
introducing a charge for plastic bags the government is insistent on making it
needlessly complicated and having exemptions for small businesses, who have said
this is unnecessary and that the best way to tackle the plastic bag problem was
just to charge everybody, but no our government don’t seem to want to listen to
the obvious and want to do it their own way.
I mean seriously how do
you mess up introducing a 5p charge for using plastic bags, how?
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