Store drops bags in 'green' move

[retailworld]

A supermarket is to remove free plastic bags from one of its stores for a fortnight from Monday to encourage recycling.

Customers at the Waitrose outlet in Saffron Walden, Essex, will instead be asked to re-use old carriers.

Full story from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/6651075.stm)

[emmab]

They should charge people for their carrier bags like they do in Ireland. It works. People don't like having to part with their pennies for something that was once free!

[penny2610]

That would work. Especially if youy charged something like fifty pence per bag.