Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.

Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in 2014 to 133m last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Monday.

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    1 year ago

    So it can be done. But sitting around grumbling about how a better future is impossible because everything has to stay how it is right now won’t get us there.

    Conveniently ignoring the part where I said new developments should absolutely have public transit in mind.