You Have Saved 1.5 Billion Carrier Bags In Just One Year, Tesco Tell Customers

by Benson Agoha In Lagos

Tesco, UK's biggest supper market has revealed its customers have saved 1.5 billion carriers bags, just one year after introducing the 5p charge.

In a statement made available to Woolwich Online, Tesco said it has experienced a 72% fall in the use of the bags as customers reacted to the charge by avoiding the single use bags.

Tesco said "over 1.5 billion single-use carrier bags have been saved by Tesco customers in England since the introduction of the Government bag charge a year ago." adding "The figures represent an incredible 72% fall in the use of single-use plastic bags being used in Tesco stores."

Much of the short fall stemmed from online shoppers who shunned the bags as Tesco revealed its customers shopping on tesco.com "have also dramatically reduced the number of bags they use, with 57% of online shoppers selecting ‘bagless’ deliveries."

* Shoppers save 1.5 billion carrier bags by avoiding to pay
 just 5p for them. (Credit: Tesco).

All super markets in UK introduced a unifying 5p charge on single use bags, but the charge met with resistance.  Shoppers later relaxed after they found that all supermarkets introduced the fee which was approved by the regular to stop price war as a result of the bags.

1.5 billion saving is certainly good for the environment.

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