Outright bag ban ‘unviable’
Thursday 21st February 2008, 2:30PM GMT.
BANNING the use of plastic bags is not a practical or viable option in the near future, according to two of the island’s largest retailers.
Environment minister David De Lisle said in yesterday’s Guernsey Press that if shops did not take the initiative within the next year, he would look to take a proposal for a ban to the States.
But while Creasey’s managing director Tony Creasey and Channel Islands Co-operative Society chief executive Jim Hopley both support the drive to reduce plastic bag use, both are worried about the consequences of rushing through a ban.
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Plans to pass laws to ban plastic bags!! Has the Enviroment Minister gone bonkers? Has that department nothing better to do? No wonder the public have lost faith in the States.
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There should be a 10 pence tax on plastic bags and these used to finance recycling and other environmental issues.
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