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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I stay in Lithuania for about 6 months every year. You pay for you plastic shopping bags there and because Lithuanians are on a lower wage they will look after the bags and use them as many times as possible. I think it’s good to be charged for plastic bags and better still if they could invest some money and come up with an alternative biodegradable bag.
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