Charge at least 10p for plastic bags

I've been campaigning for over a year in support of the Welsh Government's proposals to levy a charge for single use plastic bags. In fact several years ago in one of the Farmers Markets I'm involved with we produced a range of hessian bages which reduced drastically the number of plastic bags used.

I was delighted therefore to hear the Environment Minister confirm the plans to charge for single use plastic bags. Having come this far we now need to ensure that the charge for plastic bags is set at a level to give people every incentive to use reusable bags - at least 10p in my view. But sticks rarely work without carrots and I'd stronlgy encourage the Government to produce and distribute more reusable bags so that everyone can do their bit to build a more sustainable Wales.