UK pledges to get rid of single use bags

摘要

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged this week to make single use bags a thing of the past: "Supermarkets have already committed to reduce the environmental impact of plastic bags by 25 per cent over the next year," he said, in his first major environment speech. "But I believe we can go further. Indeed, I am convinced that we can eliminate single use disposable bags altogether, in favour of long lasting and more sustainable alternatives," he said at the Foreign Press Association on 19 November. "So the Government will convene a forum of the supermarkets, the British Retail Consortium and other interested groups to urgently assess together how and how quickly this reduction can be achieved."