A number of countries are banning single-use plastic bags (the usual supermarket types), and although this is a good start, they should ban all plastic bags in shops.
The ban has been well supported by most people, although there have been cases of plastic-bag rage at shops when people have forgotten. This is another example of the decline of standards of some people, and no shop assistant should be yelled at for a customer’s mistake.
There are already too many bags in our rubbish tips and ocean creatures’ stomachs. People need to grow up, get some cloth bags and reuse them.
Dennis Fitzgerald
