It has occurred to me that if shops stop giving plastic bags to a customer who has grown used to making good use of them, the customer will buy plastic bags to do the jobs they use shopping bags for.

For example, rubbish into the bin, recommended by the council as advisable to avoid the smell of waste attracting unwanted pests, carrying goods from one venue to another, ie school, picnics, charity shops etc.

Packing things into the car, to take to the recycle bins, so many more uses that they are too many to mention.

So back to buying the many sizes of plastic bags that are available.

In my experience they are not as robust as a carrier bag and very often are only fit to be thrown away after one use, so creating the need for more of these bags.

The bags we get from the Co-op are degradable and do disintegrate as I have proved to myself.

Why can’t all plastic bags be made this way therefore helping to resolve the problem?