This is one of those 'everyone said it was going to happen, and now it is' stories.
For as long as I can remember, we've been encourage to reuse plastic bags for shopping. Some of the big supermarkets, like M&S, then started to sell re-usable, durable bags to encourage this kind of low-level recycling and make a bit of money on the side (which is probably the best way for big business to approach recyling).
Now, Ikea are going to charge for plastic bags. It seems like that are a lot of green initiatives like this popping up over the UK now. We've all known that plastic carrier bags are pretty nasty things, now it's nice to see companies giving shoppers an inventive to recycle.
Having said all that, though, I do miss those big, square, brown paper Ikea bags. They made the best cat toys, after all.
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That would never go over here in the US. People would be outraged I'm sure. I always bring my own cloth bags to the grocers. Those plastic bags are the biggest pollution eyesores (next to plastic water bottles that is).
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