Environmentalists trashing the environment 3

They're coming thick and fast now.

The government's going to ban plastic bags, despite its own advisers telling it that this will make the situation worse!

Idiots. 

Comments

[Martin Robbins]

I'm fairly undecided at the moment until I see more hard data from countries that have banned them. The comments by the public in the Daily Mail/BBC online forums are quite funny though... I just published a load at http://layscience.net/?q=node/46

[6000]

We in SA have to pay a plastic bag tax of around 20c (=1.3p) per bag we use at the supermarket. However, with inflation running at 8.9% and the monthly shop weighing in at somewhere around R2,000 or 200,000c, I don't actually notice.