Roseanna Cunningham saying this was a “reasonable and widely accepted move”.Prior to charges being levied on single-use bags in October 2014, Scots used some 800 million of these each year.That number fell by 80% the following the year – with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 the number of bags found littering Scotland’s beaches fell by 40% two years in a row, with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.Cunningham said: “We have already affected a massive change in the use of these carrier bags.“We know there are very significant benefits, we have seen them already, and I would imagine we will go on seeing them.”Doubling the charge will “reduce further the number of single-use carrier bags that are sold in.
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