Coventry Telegraph Coverage - Plastic Bags

Plastic bags account for just 0.6 per cent of the city's domestic waste. The council needs to emphasise not just a plastic bag ban, but to reduce our consumption overall:

Coventry Green Party spokesman Scott Redding said:

"Plastic bags are more symbolic than anything. They might make up a small percentage of waste but cutting down on them might get people thinking in a different way."

"What's more effective is to get across the idea that plastic is oil and we should cut down on our use of plastic, full stop, by using glass bottles instead of plastic."

"Right now, the council is shying away from trying to reduce people's waste overall. They want to up the household recycling from 25 per cent to 50 per cent but they're taking 12 years to do it. In terms of non-plastic bag waste, they're setting their sights lower than they could."